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5 days ago · West-Flanders. Egem. The best accommodation in Egem. Check out our pick of great accommodation in Egem. See the latest prices and deals by choosing your dates. B&B 't Motjeshof. Tielt (Near Egem) With a garden and a terrace, B&B 't Motjeshof features accommodation with free WiFi.
2 days ago · Around 1850 in West Flanders and East Flanders, Flemish was used to denote their language itself. In the other provinces it was still called Diets, with a small part of the population calling their dialects Duits (allemande according to the Provisional Government).
3 days ago · The album tells the extraordinary story behind the flooding of the Yser plain which halts the enemy’s advance across West Flanders. The idea comes from Emeric Feys, a judge from Veurne, who uncovers documents proving that the same tactics were successfully used to frustrate a previous invading army – the French – in 1793.
2 days ago · The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.
20 hours ago · The study checked the employment rate among 25-to 55-year-olds in 241 regions across Europe. Flanders recorded an employment rate of 86.7 per cent, Wallonia 75.0 per cent and Brussels only 74.2 per cent. That puts the figure for Belgium as a whole at 81.5 per cent. As a result Belgium performs worse than 22 other European countries.
4 days ago · Oud bruin, literally ‘old brown’, is a sour and fruity beer of mixed fermentation indigenous to East and West Flanders. Beer judging competitions in other countries and international beer media have sometimes made a distinction.
4 days ago · Around 2,500 people came together for the nationalist Vlaams Belang rally in Antwerp, northern Belgium. Simon Wohlfahrt. Belgium's far-right Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party vowed Sunday to score a stunning victory in next weekend's elections and become the leading political force in the Dutch-speaking north.
