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2 days ago · The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders, as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917.
- 31 July – 10 November 1917, (3 months, 1 week and 3 days)
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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).
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3 days ago · In Belgium, a total of 18,000 Jews were deported in 100 days in 1942, followed by 8,000 in the following years. Many of them were betrayed by locals or by their supposed protectors as soon as the money ran out. A large number of Jews were active in the Belgian resistance. Just under 10% of the Jews in Belgium before the war were Belgian nationals.
4 days ago · The great debate about what made Flanders. The Flemish government has come up with a list of 60 cultural and historical topics that have shaped Belgium’s Dutch-speaking region. The 'Ros Beiaardommegang', a decennial procession featuring the heroic horse, Ros Beiaard, in Dendermonde.
1 day ago · Most of modern Belgium was in the Middle Kingdom, later known as Lotharingia, but the coastal county of Flanders, west of the Scheldt, became the northernmost part of West Francia, the predecessor of France.
5 days ago · 1 view 41 minutes ago. Explore the rich tapestry of Belgium's history in this captivating documentary, "Belgium History: A Story of Decolonization, Treaties, Wars, Reconstruction, and...
