Lands of Overmaas

Lands of Overmaas
Location in the Low Countries
The three constituent Lands of Valkenburg, 's-Hertogenrade and Dalhem

The Lands of Overmaas (Dutch: Landen van Overmaas; French: Pays d'Outre-Meuse) were a collection of lordships near Limburg in the Low Countries which were attached to the Duchy of Brabant and existed from the 13th to 18th centuries.

Acquired by the Valois Dukes of Burgundy along with Brabant in the 15th century, they later passed to the House of Habsburg and were partitioned between the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic in 1648. The Lands of Overmaas ceased to exist as lordships with the abolition of feudalism in 1795, following the annexation of the area by Revolutionary France.

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