Original sentence: After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Protestantism did not spread South, resulting in a religious and political situation lasting to this day: the division of the formerly united Netherlands into two states, a largely Protestant one in the north, the modern Netherlands, and an overwhelmingly Catholic one, now Belgium, in the south.Between the 16th and the 18th centuries, many French Calvinist Protestants ( the famous " Huguenots ", persecuted in their own country ) found refuge in the Dutch Republic.Most of the Dutch Protestants were now concentrated in the Dutch provinces above the river Rhine, while the Catholic Dutch were situated in the Spanish ruled South
Edited sentence: After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Protestantism did not spread South, resulting in a religious and political situation lasting to this day: the division of the formerly united Netherlands into two states, a mainly Protestant one in the north, the modern Netherlands, and an overwhelmingly Catholic one, now Belgium, in the south.Between the 16th and the 18th centuries, many French Calvinist Protestants ( the famous " Huguenots ", persecuted in their own country ) found refuge in Holland.Most of the Dutch Protestants were now concentrated in the free Dutch provinces above the river Rhine, while the Catholic Dutch were situated in the Spanish occupied or dominated South