Bouches-de-la-Meuse

The Département des Bouches de la Meuse ( German department of the mouths of the Maas; Dutch Department moons van de van de Maas ) was a country from 1811 to 1813 to the French belonging Territory. It emerged from the Dutch department of Maasland.

The region roughly coincides with the present province of South Holland, as it is created after the division of the Netherlands ( 1840).

Structure

Capital ( chef-lieu ) of the department or office of the prefecture was the city of The Hague (La Haye ). It was divided into six arrondissements and cantons 35:

The Department had an area of 2,062 square kilometers and, according to statistics from the 1813 total of 209 234 inhabitants.