Flanders
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Flanders
- 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.
- The historical 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
- 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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- Anagrams of adeflnrs
- snarfled
