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Zeelandic Flanders is the north-eastern part of the large historical region of Flanders which today lies mostly in Belgium. It shares a land border with the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders. It is a latitudinally oriented strip of land along the Western Scheldt, a North Sea estuary, and has no land access to the rest of the Netherlands.
- 875.80 km² (338.15 sq mi)
- Zeeland
Zeelandic (Zeeuws: Zeêuws; Dutch: Zeeuws; West Flemish: Zêeuws) is a group of language varieties spoken in the southwestern parts of the Netherlands. It is currently considered a Low Franconian dialect of Dutch , but there have been movements to promote the status of Zeelandic from a dialect of Dutch to a separate regional language, which ...
- (undated figure of 220,000)
- Zeelandic alphabet (Latin)
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The historically Flemish region which became part of the Dutch Republic, now part of the Dutch province of Zeeland, sometimes called Zeelandic Flanders. However, the term came to be used for a bigger territory, and this is critical to the evolution of modern terminology.
East Flemish (Dutch: Oost-Vlaams, French: flamand oriental) is a collective term for the two easternmost subdivisions ("true" East Flemish, also called Core Flemish, and Waaslandic) of the so-called Flemish dialects, native to the southwest of the Dutch language area, which also include West Flemish.
Zeelandic Flanders (Dutch: Zeeuws-Vlaanderen [ˌzeːu̯sˈflaːndərə(n)], [1] Zeelandic: Zeêuws-Vlaonderen) is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in the south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north.
Pages in category "Zeelandic Flanders". The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Zeelandic Flanders.
Oct 10, 2014 · As its name implies, Zeelandic Flanders is now in the Dutch province of Zeeland. At some point, by association, Flanders became a general term not only for the county itself but also for neighbouring territories. How early this happened is unclear.
