Redemptiedorpen

The Redemptiedorpen are a group of small villages north of Liège, Belgium. Their ownership has been disputed over between the United Provinces and the Duchy of Brabant since the 17th century. The areas retained independence, with the condition that they pay taxes to both powers. In practice, they were closely linked to the tweeherigheid of Maastricht.

The Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1785 might have proposed an exchange of territories so that this areas would be absorbed, but protests from Baarle-Hertog delayed the work of the committee so much that nothing happened before the annexation of the Southern Netherlands by France.