 Several somewhat later maps of the Dutch Republic, which consisted of the Northern Netherlands, and therefore has almost no intersection with the present country of Belgium, also show the Latin title "Belgium Foederatum".Also, a 17th-century colonial province that was located on the East Coast of North America - which was ruled and settled exclusively by the Dutch Republic and in which the present Belgium had no share - was known in Dutch as "Nieuw-Nederland" but in Latin as "Nova Belgica" or "Novum Belgium".The earliest Leo Belgicus was drawn by the Austrian cartographer Michaël Eytzinger in 1583, when the Netherlands were fighting the Eighty Years' War for independence.