Bouches-de-la-Meuse

Bouches-de-la-Meuse (Dutch: Monden van de Maas) is the name of a département of the First French Empire in the present Netherlands. It is named after the mouth of the river Meuse. It was formed in 1810, when the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by France. Its territory corresponds more or less with the present Dutch province South Holland. Its capital was The Hague. The département was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons (situation in 1813):^[1]

• The Hague, cantons: Alphen aan den Rijn, Katwijk, The Hague (4 cantons) and Voorburg.
• Brielle, cantons: Brielle, Goedereede, Sommelsdijk.
• Dordrecht, cantons: Dordrecht (2 cantons), Oud-Beijerland, Ridderkerk and Strijen.
• Gorinchem, cantons: Culemborg, Gorinchem and Sliedrecht.
• Leiden, cantons: Leiden (3 cantons), Noordwijk and Woubrugge.
• Rotterdam, cantons: Delft (2 cantons), Gouda, Haastrecht, Hillegersberg, Naaldwijk, Rotterdam (4 cantons), Schiedam and Vlaardingen.

Its population in 1812 was 393,600, and its area was 378,282 hectares.^[1]

After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the département became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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