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Upper Guelders or Spanish Guelders was one of the four quarters in the Imperial Duchy of Guelders. In the Dutch Revolt, it was the only quarter that did not secede from the Habsburg Monarchy to become part of the Seven United Netherlands, but remained under Spanish rule during the Eighty Years' War. ==Geography== Within the Low Countries, the counts, later dukes at Geldern had collected several territories down the Meuse river, which were physically separated from their original territory by those lands along the Lower Rhine which were held by the Dukes of Cleves. The northern territories were administrated within three quarters: # Zutphen County, # Veluwe Quarter, # Nijmegen Quarter with the Land of Meuse and Waal and the Betuwe. These lower quarters today form the Dutch province of Gelderland. The most important cities in Upper Guelders were Geldern, Venlo and Roermond. Together with the Duchy of Cleves, the region originally was part of the South Guelderish language area, part of the Low Franconian dialect group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Upper Guelders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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