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Flanders, region that constitutes the northern half of Belgium. Along with the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region , the self-governing Flemish Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ethnolinguistic lines, in the 1980s and ’90s.
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Ruled by Baldwin I in 862, Flanders began to grow as a commercial centre, fostered by its strategic location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Scandinavian and Baltic countries. It passed to Burgundy in 1384 and then to the Austrian Habsburg s in 1477.
Flanders was the most urbanized region of northern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Between c. 1000 and 1300, its town and ports grew in size and number as it became the major center for trade in northern Europe, acting as a nodal point for merchants from England, the Baltic, Italy, and France.
Flanders ( Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch -speaking, northern part of Belgium wedged between the North Sea and the Netherlands in the north and Wallonia and France in the south. This region has an immense historical and cultural wealth made visible through its buildings, works of art and festivals.
The county was located where the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire met the North Sea. The County of Flanders [1] was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium.
The area in Northern Europe that is dark red is Flanders, which was controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy (in France) during this time period, and we call the art and culture of this area Flemish. Figure 3.6.1 3.6. 1. A map of Europe in 1430.
