Netherlands States-General

In the Netherlands the convocation of the States-General (Staten Generaal), consisting of delegates from the provincial estates[?], dates from about the middle of the 15th century, under the rule of the dukes of Burgundy. The name was transferred, after the separation of the northern Netherlands from the Spanish[?] dominions, to the representatives elected by the seven sovereign provincial estates for the general government of the United Provinces. The States-General, in which the voting was by provinces - each province having one vote - was established from 1593 at the Hague.

The States-General came to an end after the revolution in 1795, with the proclamation of the Batavian Republic and the subsequent convocation of the National Assembly (March 1, 1796). The title of Staten-Generaal, however, continued in the title of subsequent Netherlands parliaments.

Original text from 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica