Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Duk da haka, bayan tawayen larduna bakwai na arewacin (1568), Sack of Antwerp
(1576), Faduwar Antwerp (1584<unk>1585), da kuma sakamakon rufe kogin Scheldt zuwa kewayawa, mutane da yawa daga lardunan kudancin sun yi hijira zuwa arewa zuwa sabuwar jamhuriya. Cibiyar wadata ta ƙaura daga biranen da ke kudu kamar Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, da Brussels zuwa biranen da ke arewa, galibi a Holland, ciki har da Amsterdam, The Hague, da Rotterdam.