Austrian Netherlands

1. (plural only, historical) A former dependent territory of the Austrian Empire, consisting of the southern part of the Low Countries (modern Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) from 1714 to 1797, when they were annexed by France.
   • 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...

• Belgium, Netherlands, Spanish Netherlands