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The county of Flanders officially ceased to exist in 1795, when it was annexed by France, and divided into two departments: Lys (present day West Flanders) and Escaut (present day East Flanders and Zeelandic Flanders). Austria confirmed its loss in the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio.
Historical Flanders: County of Flanders. 14th-century illustration of French knights charging Flemish footsoldiers (right) at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302. The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the predecessor of the Kingdom of France.
The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia. After a period of growing power within France , it was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century, with the remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of neighbouring Hainaut in 1191.
Toward 1180 Flanders was a major power in northern France. The duchy of Normandy was created in 911, when the Viking chieftain Rollo (Hrolf) accepted lands around Rouen and Evreux from King Charles III (the Simple).
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 County of Flanders is first recorded for 862, then as part of the West Frankish Kingdom (of France), to which it belonged until 1495. In the course of the Middle Ages the Counts of Flanders acquired territory beyond the French border, in the Holy Roman Empire: Imperial Flanders (the Land van Aalst).
The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium. Unlike its neighbours, such as the counties of Brabant and Hainaut, it was within the territory of the Kingdom of France.
