Meuse-Inférieure

Description

Meuse-Inférieure (Lower Meuse; Dutch: Nedermaas or Beneden-Maas; German: Niedermaas) is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It is named after the river Meuse. Its capital was Maastricht. The département was formed in 1795, when the Southern Netherlands and the left bank of the Rhine were annexed by France. Go to the map ⬆⬆