The main results of the revolution in the Netherlands.

The revolution in the Netherlands was one of the longest revolutions in history and lasted with varying degrees of severity from 1566 to 1648. The main goal: the liberation of the Netherlands (at that time, it is a union of seventeen different provinces) from Spanish enslavement and dominion. The results of the revolutionary process: the religious equality of Catholicism and Protestantism in the indicated territory, the expansion of the colonial trade of the Netherlands in the Far East and America, the Netherlands Republic was recognized as a sovereign and independent state on the world stage.