* the geographical region in the north of Belgium coinciding with the federal Belgian state's Flemish Region.

The Flemish population in the north speaks Dutch, the Walloon population in the south speaks French and / or German.

It also borders on the Wallonian province of Liège to the south, the Flemish provinces of Flemish Brabant and Antwerp to the west, and the Dutch province of North Brabant to the north.

It borders on ( clockwise from the north ) the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant ( Wallonia ), and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg ( Flanders ).

Ranulf Higden in his Polychronicus records the Flemings as extinct in Pembrokeshire by 1327 but Flemish mercenaries reappear in 1400 when at the behest of Henry IV they joined an army of 1500 English settlers who marched north from Pembrokeshire to attack the army of Owain Glyndŵr at Mynydd Hyddgen.

Erpe-Mere is located north of the foothills of the Flemish Ardennes, in the region Denderstreek.

He invaded France in company with Floris d ' Egmont, Count of Buren, who was at the head of the Flemish troops, and laid waste the north of France, but disbanded his troops at the approach of winter.

< p > Pomphray was probably name of one of the Flemish ( Belgian ) noblemen invited by King David I and his grandson Malcolm IV to settle in Scotland in the twelfth century ... Pomphray would have been granted the lands north of the Almond in return for serving the king in battle ... around the castle built by Pomphray, probably a wooden structure later replaced by a stone building, would have grown up a little settlement and farm to house and feed his adherents and servants-Pomphray's town.

vtm or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij ( English: Flemish Television Company ) is the main commercial television station in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium.

The district contains rows of handsome brownstones designed by William O ' Gorman and William Hornum in 1883 combining Dutch and Flemish architectural aspects on the north side of E. 140th Street and neo-Grecian aspects on the south side of E. 140th Street and on E. 139th Street.

Beyond the lake to the north, the hameau was sited like a garden stage set, initially inspired in its grouping and vernacular building by Dutch and Flemish genre paintings, philosophically influenced by Rousseau's cult of " nature ", and reflecting exactly contemporary picturesque garden principles set forth by Claude-Henri Watelet and by ideas of the philosophes, their " radical notions co-opted into innocent forms of pleasure and ingenious decoration " as William Adams has pointed out.

There are the remains of some 14th-century stained glass in the north window of the nave and in the east Chancel window which are of Flemish origin.

The Flemish Cap is an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic Ocean centered roughly at 47 ° north, 45 ° west or about 350 miles ( 560 km ) east of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

The other two geographical regions are the Flemish Region, a mainly Dutch-speaking region in the north and west, and the Brussels-Capital, bilingual French-Dutch administering the city of Brussels.

Art from this period shows influences from both the north of Europe, namely the Dutch and Flemish schools, and from Roman painters of the Counter-Reformation.

Art from this period shows influences from both the north of Europe ( Dutch and Flemish schools ) and from Roman painters of the Counter-Reformation.

This explains that road signs in Flanders are written in Dutch, even when referring to a Walloon region, and conversely, which can be confusing for foreigners who do not know the different translations of Flemish or Walloon cities in the other language.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

Good examples are the cities established by various rulers in the south of France and city expansions in old Dutch and Flemish cities.

West Flemish (, ) is a dialect group of Dutch spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.

The dialects of the rest of the Dutch province of Zeeland, Zeelandic, are sometimes also included in West Flemish although this classification is controversial.

* Euromosaic report on West Flemish ( thus Dutch ) in France

In 17th and 18th century, king Louis XIV of France captured more French-speaking areas in southern Flanders around Lille, referred to as Lilloise Flanders or la Flandre Lilloise, but also Maritime Flanders, where originally Dutch was spoken, and to this day, a Flemish dialect persists in some rural areas near Dunkirk.

By the mid 17th century, numerous small Dutch and Flemish distillers ( some 400 in Amsterdam alone by 1663 ) had popularized the re-distillation of malt spirit or wine with juniper, anise, caraway, coriander, etc., which were sold in pharmacies and used to treat such medical problems as kidney ailments, lumbago, stomach ailments, gallstones, and gout.

* 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs ( Guldensporenslag in Dutch ) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river ( Dutch: Maas ) in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border ( with both the Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre ) and near the German border.

German, French, Flemish, Danish, Dutch, and Norwegian colonists entered the area shortly afterward.

In the federal ( bicameral ) kingdom of Belgium, there is a curious asymmetrical constellation serving as directly elected legislatures for three " territorial " regions — Flanders ( Dutch ), Brussels ( bilingual, certain peculiarities of competence, also the only region not comprising any of the 10 provinces ) and Wallonia ( French )— and three cultural communities — Flemish ( Dutch, competent in Flanders and for the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Brussels ), Francophone ( French, for Wallonia and for Francophones in Brussels ) and German ( for speakers of that language in a few designated municipalities in the east of the Walloon Region, living alongside Francophones but under two different regimes )

Tax records exist from 1366 for Leuven's Den Horen (" The horn " in Dutch / Flemish ) Brewery.

In 1852 he entered The Royal Academy of Antwerp where he studied early Dutch and Flemish art, under Egide Charles Gustave Wappers.

The language groups are: French community ( though not Walloon but generally named Wallonia-Brussels, see especially the international plan and from 1 January 2009 ) Flemish community ( which uses Dutch ), and German-speaking community.

* Dutch / Flemish: blanc mengier

Nord is the only French département in which a Dutch dialect ( French Flemish ) is spoken along with French as a native language.

There are currently 20, 000 speakers of a subset of the Dutch dialect West Flemish in the arrondissement of Dunkirk and this particular subset is in danger of extinction within decades.

Friction between French-speaking ( Walloons ) and Dutch ( Flemish ) speaking Flemings has always been the central political issue of the Kingdom of Belgium.

In the Flemish speaking part of Belgium it is called " zurkel " and canned pureed sorrel is mixed with mashed potatoes and eaten with sausages, meatballs or fried bacon, as a traditional winter dish.

In Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, a Flemish Discovery Channel launched ( previously the Dutch version was available for IPTV, DVB-C and DVB-S ) on Cable ( and digital ) Television on October 1, 2009.

Hendrik Veltmans was a local priest and an inspiring flamingant ( advocate of the Dutch speaking (" Flemish ") sake

This committee proposed, notwithstanding the 1947 results ( strongly disputed by the Flemish ), that the six villages were Dutch speaking with special regulations for the French speaking minority to be decided after discussion with the town councils.

The municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West-Flanders and the French department of Nord and not connected to the rest of the French speaking area of Belgium.

Urban Trad is a Belgian folk music group, consisting of both Flemish and French speaking people and a close connection with Galicia.

In the final episode, on being given a Cure album as a present, Ray cannot bring himself to sound sarcastic when thanking his friend and, bizarrely, starts speaking Flemish.

Ray has quite a successful run of appearances on Flemish chat-shows, before the inevitable happens, and he begins speaking Flemish in a sarcastic tone.

In the last years of the war however, it became clear that the only wish of the king was to keep his country peaceful, and not to give the Flemish the rights the French speaking establishment denied them.

In the early 1960s Belgium was divided into four linguistic areas, the Dutch speaking Flemish area, the French speaking area, the bilingual capital of Brussels, and the German speaking area of the east cantons.

Among French speaking Belgians the Humanist Democratic Centre is a centre-right or centre party as it is considerably less conservative than its Flemish counterpart, Christian Democratic & Flemish.

The French Community of Belgium (,, also controversially called the Wallonia-Brussels Federation ) is one of the three official communities in Belgium along with the Flemish Community and the German speaking Community.

Strictly legally speaking, the VGC is only competent for institutions depending from the Flemish government, and not for individual persons.

Legally speaking, in the regions of Brussel-Capital as well as of Flanders, the Flemish Community is responsible not for individual people, but for Flemish institutions such as schools, theatres, libraries and museums.

Bruges is located in the Flemish Region of Belgium, a Flemish ( Dutch )- speaking area, although the university does not use Dutch as one of its working languages.

Low Franconian settlers only came in the 12th century and 13th century when Flemish settlers ( Frankish speaking ) played an important part in draining the swamplands between the coast of Holland and Utrecht.