Duchy of Brabant

This article deals with the historical duchy of Brabant, for other meanings see Brabant. The Duchy of Brabant was a historical region in the Low Countries. It consisted not only of the three actual Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant and Antwerp and  Brussels-Capital Region but also the present-day Dutch province of North Brabant. In Roman times, Brabant was situated in the Roman provinces of Belgica and Germania Inferior and inhabited by Celtic tribes, until Germanic peoples replaced them and made an end to roman imperial rule. Its most important cities were Brussels (Brussel), Antwerp (Antwerpen), Leuven, Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch, Lier, Tilburg and Eindhoven. The region's name is first recorded as the Carolingian shire pagus Bracbatensis, located between the rivers Scheldt and Dijle, from bracha "new" and bant "region".
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