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From 1551 to 1565 the number of persons persecuted in the county of Flanders for heresy rose from 187 to 1322. In Antwerp, the largest city of the Low Countries, with some 100,000 inhabitants around 1565, one-third of the population openly declared for Calvinist, Lutheran, or other Protestant denominations; another third declared itself to be ...
Oct 10, 2014 · Two of Flanders’ most important towns, Arras and Saint-Omer were in the new county, but they retained close links with Flanders. Saint-Omer and Arras were two of the main markets for Scottish wool in the late thirteenth century; [7] as they must have been earlier, because in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they were the two most successful ...
ART IN FLANDERS, 1585 – 1700. In 1579, driven by economic interests and supported by Protestants who wished to be free of repressive religious policies, a group of provinces of the northern Netherlands declared their independence from Philip II, the Habsburg king of Spain (ruled 1556 – 1598). The division of the Netherlands into two regions ...
Lille (/ ˈ l iː l / LEEL, French: ⓘ; Dutch: Rijsel; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille.
The County of Flanders (modern provinces of East and West Flanders) was part of the Kingdom of France between the 9th and 15th centuries, then returned to Imperial control with the Habsburgs (see below). Late Middle Ages : political conflicts. The Vikings raided most of Flanders in the 9th century and were finally defeated near Leuven in 891 ...
The historic and fascinating area of French Flanders. No wonder the ancient Dukedom of Flanders and the adjoining territories of Artois and Picardy are known to historians as ‘The Cockpit of Europe’. Straddling the borders between present day France and Belgium it’s a region that shaped two world wars and much more.
Dec 6, 2019 · The Flemish region, also known as Flanders, is the northern portion of Belgium occupying an area of approximately 5,221 square miles (about 44% of Belgium) and inhabited mainly by the Dutch-speaking community. The region is divided into five provinces with a total of 300 municipalities. Dutch is the official language of the Flemish region ...
