Austrian Netherlands

Proper noun

 * 1)  The southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg) during their period of Austrian rule (1714–1797), ending with their annexation by France during the Napoleonic Wars.
 * 2) * 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192:
 * CHINEY, a city of the Auſtrian Netherlands on the confines of the biſhopric of Liege, about twelve miles ſouth-eaſt of Namur...

Translations

 * Dutch: Oostenrijkse Nederlanden
 * French: Pays-Bas Autrichiens
 * German: Österreichische Niederlande
 * Latin: Belgium Austriacum