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Flanders ( Vlaanderen) Flanders ( / ˈflændərz /; Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə (n)] ⓘ) [a] is the Dutch -speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and ...
Jan 28, 2023 · “The third episode of the Story of Flanders tells the tale of the County of Flanders that gave us the name today used to designate the Dutch-speaking provinces of Belgium. Many important parts of what we today call Flanders historically never formed part of the county including the Duchy of Brabant that includes what we today call Limburg”.
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Since 2009, the Delegation of Flanders to the USA is located at Flanders House on the 38th floor of The New York Times Building in Manhattan. We can easily be reached by public transport: our offices are located right across from Port Authority (buses from New York & New Jersey) and we are also accessible via subway station Port Authority ...
Aug 29, 2022 · Flanders Fields is located in the western part of Belgium, one of Europe’s low countries, and is bordered by the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Luxembourg. For most of the Great War, the Western Front ran from the Swiss-German border north toward the Belgian Coast and Ypres (Ieper) is commonly known as the centre of the Flanders Fields region.
Flanders is also the name of a geographical area, comprising the western part of the political Flemish region (political West and East Flanders), and parts of northern France and the southern Netherlands. In bygone times, these parts formed the County of Flanders, with its main cities Bruges and Ghent. Flanders was a fief of France.
For most of the latter half of the 16th century Flanders was part of the Spanish/Austrian Netherlands, except for a brief period when it formed part of the United Netherlands under the Treaty of Utrecht, prior to being re-conquered by Spain in 1580.
History of the Low Countries - 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 territoriality was strengthened ...
