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The future counties of Flanders and Brabant remained part of this province connected to what is now France, but in the east modern Limburg became part of the Rhine frontier province of Germania Inferior connected to what is now the Netherlands and Germany.
Flanders, medieval principality in the southwest of the Low Countries, now included in the French département of Nord ( q.v. ), the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders ( qq.v. ), and the Dutch province of Zeeland ( q.v. ). The name appeared as early as the 8th century and is believed to mean “Lowland,” or “Flooded Land.”.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Related Places: France. Netherlands. Belgium. Flanders, region that constitutes the northern half of Belgium. Along with the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region, the self-governing Flemish Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ethnolinguistic lines, in the 1980s and ’90s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 6, 2019 · Flanders is the northern part of Belgium. It shares its southern border with Wallonia while the rest of the border is shared with France in the west, the Netherlands in the north and east, and the North Sea.
- John Misachi
The original medieval county of Flanders spread from the area of Bruges, and later had its capital in nearby Ghent. Its core territories came to include French Flanders, now in France, the Belgian provinces of West and East Flanders, and part of the modern province of Hainaut.
French Flanders (French: La Flandre française, pronounced [flɑ̃dʁə fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken.
The historic and fascinating area of French Flanders. The Good Life France. Nord-Pas de Calais. No wonder the ancient Dukedom of Flanders and the adjoining territories of Artois and Picardy are known to historians as ‘The Cockpit of Europe’. Straddling the borders between present day France and Belgium it’s a region that shaped two world ...
