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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.
Flanders. (1 January 2019 [2]) West Flanders ( Dutch: West-Vlaanderen [ˌʋɛst ˈflaːndərə (n)] ⓘ; [5] West Flemish: West Vloandern; French: (Province de) Flandre-Occidentale [flɑ̃dʁ ɔksidɑ̃tal]; German: Westflandern [ˈvɛstˌflandɐn] ⓘ) is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal ...
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Our map illustrates the battlefield sectors of the 1914-1918 Western Front. The line of battlefields ran through a wide variety of landscapes from its northern end in the dunes of the West Flanders Belgian coast to the frontier crossing at the village of Pfetterhouse on the Swiss-German (Alsace) border.
The history of Flanders concerns not only the modern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, which is now called "Flanders" (Dutch: Vlaanderen), but also several neighbouring territories and populations. Its historical core territory was in western Belgium between the coast and the Scheldt river.
West Flanders. Type: province of Belgium with 1,200,000 residents. Description: province in Flanders, Belgium. Neighbors: East Flanders, Hainaut and Zeeland. Location: Flemish Region, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude of center. 51° north. Longitude of center.
Flanders ( Vlaanderen) Flanders ( / ˈflændərz /; Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə (n)] ⓘ) [a] is the Dutch -speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and ...
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