Flanders
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[edit] Etymology
From French Flandres, from Dutch Vlaanderen (pl.), from Middle Dutch Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdra ‘waterlogged land’, from *flaumaz ‘flowing, current (water)’ (compare Old High German weraltfloum ‘transitoriness of life’, Old Norse flaumr ‘eddy’), from Proto-Indo-European *plou-m- ‘flow’ (compare Ancient Greek plŷma ‘dishwater, washing water’). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.
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Flanders
- (historical) The Countship of Flanders, of varying extent.
- 1613 — Shakespeare, Hen VIII iii 2
- When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
- 1613 — 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.
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subnational state in the north of federal Belgium
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historical county
two provinces in Belgium
former province and region of northern France
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