Flanders
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- (historical) The County of Flanders, of varying extent.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Hen VIII ↗ iii 2
- When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
- 1613, William Shakespeare, Hen VIII ↗ iii 2
- A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.
- Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
- Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
- The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
- Surname
- French: Flandre, Flandres
- German: Flandern
- Italian: Fiandre
- Portuguese: Flandres
- Russian: Фла́ндрия
- Spanish: Flandes
- French: la Flandre, la Flandre française
- German: Flandern
- Italian: Fiandre
- Portuguese: Flandres
- Russian: Фла́ндрия
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