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2 days ago · Lille ( / ˈliːl / LEEL, French: [lil] ⓘ; Dutch: Rijsel [ˈrɛisəl]; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.
4 days ago · The great debate about what made Flanders. The Flemish government has come up with a list of 60 cultural and historical topics that have shaped Belgium’s Dutch-speaking region.
5 days ago · Belgium’s largest city, Brussels (Flemish: Brussel; French: Bruxelles), the capital of both the country and the administrative region of Flanders, has suburbs that spread into Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant. It is the centre of commerce, industry, and intellectual life in Belgium. It is also a city of international importance.
2 days ago · Flanders was the most radical anti-Spanish territory. Many Flemish fled to Holland, among them half of the population of Antwerp, 3/4 of Bruges and Ghent and the entire population of Nieuwpoort, Dunkerque and countryside. [66]
2 days ago · Flanders (Vlaanderen) and Flemish (Vlaams) were originally only territorial terms. They referred to the old County of Flanders, later to the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders. Flanders had been split in two départements by the French after the annexation in 1795.
4 days ago · Sizable islands of Roman Catholicism remained in most of the United Provinces, while Gelderland and the northern parts of Brabant and Flanders conquered by the States General were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, as they remain today.
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3 days ago · Flanders. By the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars (1793-1802), the regiment was back up to strength. From 1793 to 1796, it took part in the Flanders campaign, fighting at Valenciennes (1793), Dunkirk (1793), Beaumont (1794) and Willems (1794).
