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      • The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the predecessor of the Kingdom of France.
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  2. The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the predecessor of the Kingdom of France. 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 ...

  3. 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).

  4. Flanders, medieval principality in the southwest of the Low Countries, now included in the French département of Nord (q.v.), the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders (qq.v.), and the Dutch province of Zeeland (q.v.). The name appeared as early as the 8th century and is believed to.

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  5. County of Flanders, 1350, in relation to the Low Countries and the Holy Roman Empire. The county was located where the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire met the North Sea. Status. French and Imperial fiefdom.

  6. The French Third Republic was the system of government created in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the creation of the Vichy government in France.

  7. Apr 14, 2024 · Early history. Historical Flanders: County of Flanders. Flanders in the Low Countries. Beeldenstorm. The Eighty Years' War and its consequences. 1581–1795: The Southern Netherlands. 1795–1815: French Revolution and Napoleonic France. 1815–1830: United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Kingdom of Belgium. Rise of the Flemish Movement.

  8. Consolidation of territorial states (1384–1567) Among the many territorial principalities of the Low Countries, Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut-Holland, and Gelderland (Guelders) in the mid-14th century had a dominating military and diplomatic position. Flanders had already arrested the course of French domination, and its feeling of ...