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- The remnants of the medieval County of Flanders lay in today’s Belgium and are today known as West Flanders and East Flanders. A part of it in the north was annexed by the Netherlands and lives on as Zeelandic Flanders.
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Jan 28, 2023 · “The third episode of the Story of Flanders tells the tale of the County of Flanders that gave us the name today used to designate the Dutch-speaking provinces of Belgium. Many important parts of what we today call Flanders historically never formed part of the county including the Duchy of Brabant that includes what we today call Limburg”.
The geography of the historic County of Flanders only partially overlaps with the present-day region of Flanders in Belgium, but even there, it extends beyond the present provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders. Some of the historic county is now part of France and the Netherlands.
Jul 21, 2023 · Belgium is one of the European countries dealing with a major influx of asylum seekers, with numbers of arrivals similar to the migration crisis of 2015. In Flanders, migration is seen as the number one concern for voters, according to recent research. “Vlaams Belang owns the migration theme, which is very important to a lot of Flemish voters ...
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Flanders now became part of the Kingdom of Belgium, which was recognized by the major European Powers on 20 January 1831. The de facto dissidence was only finally recognized by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands on 19 April 1839.
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.”
Oct 3, 2020 · It took nearly 500 days of political horse-trading for Belgium to welcome in a new coalition government, led by Alexander De Croo. And it's the second time in 10 years that Belgians have seen that ...
