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Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
Sep 14, 2023 · September 14, 2023. A landscape of the dead, a landscape for the living, is one way of describing the First World War cemeteries clustered around the city of Ypres in Belgian Flanders. The cost of the Great War was in so many ways beyond measure, but an idea of the number of human lives expended along the Western Front is given by these ...
Jul 24, 2021 · His choleric temperament was equaled only by his reputation in many historical and literary works. Where he went, trouble and greatness followed. Philip of Alsace, as he was commonly known, was born in 1143, the eldest son of Thierry of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. As John W. Baldwin notes, Philip was born into “one of the two richest and ...
Oct 26, 2017 · Flanders Fields is a name given to the battlegrounds of the Great War located in the medieval County of Flanders, across southern Belgium going through to north-west France. From 1914 to 1918 ...
Jun 27, 2007 · When the Frankish Empire was divided up in 843, the Scheldt River became the demarcation line between the Western and Eastern Frankish kingdoms. In 862 the Western Frankish king, Charles the Bald's daughter married Baldwin I and was appointed count of the newly created County of Flanders. 12th and 13th Centuries
Flemish people or Flemings ( Dutch: Vlamingen [ˈvlaːmɪŋə (n)] ⓘ) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, Belgium, who speak Flemish Dutch. Flemish people make up the majority of Belgians, at about 60%. " Flemish " was historically a geographical term, as all inhabitants of the medieval County of Flanders in modern-day Belgium ...
