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2 days ago · West Flanders: West-Vlaanderen: Flandre occidentale: Westflandern: Bruges: 3,197 km 2 (1,234 sq mi) 1,195,796 375/km 2 (970/sq mi) VWV Walloon Region Hainaut: Henegouwen: Hainaut: Hennegau: Mons: 3,813 km 2 (1,472 sq mi) 1,344,241 353/km 2 (910/sq mi) WHT Liège: Luik: Liège: Lüttich: Liège: 3,857 km 2 (1,489 sq mi) 1,106,992 288/km 2 (750 ...
4 days ago · Ghent, city, Flanders Region, northwestern Belgium. Ghent lies at the junction of the canalized Lys (Leie) and Scheldt (Schelde) rivers and is the centre of an urban complex that includes Ledeberg, Gentbrugge, and Sint-Amandsberg.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · But the most impressive aspect of the canon is its emphasis on diversity, migration and foreigners. The list includes people like the Arab cartographer Muhammad Al-Idrisi (who included Flanders on his 12 th-century world map) and the Congolese thinker Paul Panda Farnana (one of the first to criticise colonialism).
4 days ago · No, in late May and June, Flanders Fields is transforming into a sea of purple Alliums. Last autumn, 50,000 Allium bulbs (ornamental onions) were planted at various famous and lesser-known First World War sites, from Tyne Cot Cemetery to Langemark’s German Military Cemetery, from Kemmel to the Iron Memorial in Nieuwpoort.
3 days ago · Of the 368 buried soldiers were 21 unknown, the Walls of the Missing inside the chapel tells us of another 43 missing service members. Nearly all soldiers buried here were from these four divisions who fought in Belgium during the final weeks of the war: the 27th "New York", the 30th "Old Hickory", the 37th "Buckeye" and the 91st "Wild West".
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Map showing the language borders in Belgium today, declared in 1962. Green denotes the Flemish region and the Dutch-speaking area. In its heart, in grey, lies bilingual Brussels. The French-speaking area is in blue and the German-speaking area in yellow, together forming the Wallonian region.
4 days ago · This is an alternative version of Vicky's quiz All First-Level Subdivisions of Europe on a Map. Slovenia, Iceland, North Macedonia and Latvia have been simplified (who wants to learn hundreds of Slovenian villages? Not me). Countries with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants (Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino) have been omitted. The Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
