Tanım
•in the northern Netherlands: to the north of the Rhine and Meuse and their distributaries, which separate the Catholic southern provinces from the northern, largely Protestant parts of the Low Countries
Etimoloji
Literally, “above the rivers”, that is the Rhine and Meuse and their distributaries, which as part of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta form a natural border between two larger religiocultural regions of the Low Countries (with the Rivierengebied forming a transitional region).