While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

Following parties have consistent presence in the Flemish parliament:

The Battle of Salado in 1340 resulted in the opening of maritime trade between southern and northern Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar and a growing presence of Italian and Flemish merchants in Seville, who were key to the inclusion of the southern routes of the Crown of Castile in that commerce.

Rapidly retreating south with the Despensers, Edward failed to grip the situation, with the result that Isabella found herself and her household cut off from the south by the Scottish army, with the coastline patrolled by Flemish naval forces allied to the Scots.

The current Governor is Lodewijk De Witte, he has been the Governor of Flemish Brabant since it was created in 1995 as a result of the splitting up of the Province of Brabant.

The result was the album Ne me quitte pas ( Don't leave me ), which contained the title track, " Marieke ", " Les Flamandes " ( Flemish women ), " Quand on a que l ’ amour " ( When you only have love ), " Les biches " ( The does ), " Le moribond " ( The dying one ), " La valse à mille temps " ( The waltz a thousand times as fast ), and " Je ne sais pas " ( I don't know ).

As a result, there are several differences between the municipal institutions in the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region.

After a disappointing result in the regional elections of 2009, the Social Liberal Party decided to fuse with the Flemish ecologists of Groen!

As of 2010, the confederalist parties make up more than half of the Flemish Parliament, which combined with the separatist parties, would result in about 80 % of the Flemish Parliament ( and at least this much of the Flemish part of the Belgian Federal Parliament ) occupied by parties who wish to see Flanders obtaining greater autonomy than is the case today.

In order to achieve this result, it is necessary that all civil and military functions are entrusted to Walloons and Luxemburgers ; this way, the Flemish, temporarily deprived of the advantages of these offices, will be constrained to learn French, and we will hence destroy bit by bit the Germanic element in Belgium.

As a result of escalating internal conflicts the Volksunie ceased to exist in 2000, splitting into two new parties: Spirit and N-VA ( Nieuwe Vlaamse Alliantie, New Flemish Alliance ).

The changes made to the arms of the Flemish provinces as a result of this decision, are not reflected in the great seal either.

This electoral result was far too low to gain a seat in the Flemish Parliament.

Wages of predominantly former Flemish textile workers in cities like Leiden plummeted as a result.

After a disappointing result in the regional elections of 2009, the Social Liberal Party decided to fuse with the Flemish ecologists of Groen!

Drawing its support ( in 1936, the peak of the votes for Rex ), from Brussels ( result of the votes expressed in percentage 18, 50 %), Wallonia ( 15, 16 %), Flanders ( 7, 01 %), and German-speaking Community of Belgium ( or the territory corresponding to this present-day Community ) ( 26, 44 %), Rexism had a Flemish ideological competitor in the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond which advocated an independent Flanders and exclusive use of the Dutch language.

As a result of political emancipation of the region of Flanders, the combined culture of that region, which consists out of West Flanders, East Flanders, Brabant and Limburg, is named Flemish and so are the four languages sometimes.

After a disappointing result in the regional elections of 2009, the Social Liberal Party decided to fuse with the Flemish ecologists of Groen!

During the Eighty Years ' War and especially after 1585, the sack of Antwerp, and the successes of the Duke of Parma in the 1580s between 100, 000 and 200, 000 of Brabantish and Flemish Calvinist ( and other ) refugees and emigrants settled in the cities of Holland proper, which had the result of creating a mixture of their Dutch with the Dutch of the residents before this immigration.

Like most of France's regional languages ( e. g. Breton, West Flemish, Catalan, Provençal and Alsatian ), Lorraine Franconian has been largely replaced by French in the 19th and 20th centuries as a direct result of public schooling in French only.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Despite this regional organization, some bus and tram routes operated by STIB / MIVB go beyond the regional border, and some bus routes operated by TEC or De Lijn transport passengers from the Flemish or Walloon regions to the capital city.

The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.

With help from Plancius Peter, a Flemish minister who was engaged in producing maps, globes and nautical instruments, they sought for a northeastern or northwestern access to Asia to circumvent the VOC monopoly.

The demonym for Flanders is Flemish, while someone from Flanders is a Fleming.

However, the southern provinces ( present day Belgium ) remained under Habsburg rule, Holland benefiting greatly from the resulting eclipse of Flemish cities and massive influx of refugees.

Cases vary greatly in weight and sturdiness: Italian harpsichords are often of light construction ; heavier construction is found in the later Flemish instruments and those derived from them ( see History of the harpsichord ).

His primary language was his father's French, but growing up in the bilingual Brussels, he also learned how to speak Flemish, developing a Marollien accent from his maternal grandmother.

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.

This style of motet was sometimes called the Venetian motet to distinguish it from the Netherlands or Flemish motet written elsewhere.

After having obtained 30, 000 Marks as a ransom for the hostages he had taken from the Flemish cities he had captured, Philip quickly retraced his steps in order to reach Dam.

When Otto was carried off the field by his wounded and terrified horse, and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, severely wounded, was captured by the French, the Flemish and Imperial troops saw that the battle was lost, turned and fled from the battlefield.

In 1151 Cadell was attacked while out hunting by a group of Norman and Flemish knights from Tenby, and left for dead.

Proverbs that have their origin in Spanish have migrated to and from English, French, Flemish, German and other languages.

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

In 1624, Anguissola was visited by the Flemish painter Sir Anthony van Dyck, who recorded sketches from his visit to her in his sketchbook.

1500 ) Scottish words for the type of truck used in coal mines and the tracks on which they ran, probably derived from Middle Flemish tram " beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung ", a North Sea Germanic word of unknown origin meaning the beam or shaft of a barrow or sledge, also the barrow itself.

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.

* August 18 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire and detaching them from France.

The Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont about 1635, thought he had proved water to be the essential element from his famous experiment with a willow tree.

Simon Bening, Labors of the Months: September, from a Flemish Book of hours ( Bruges )

His signature " ALS IK KAN " (" AS I CAN ") is taken from the Flemish saying " As I can, not as I would ".

The Dutch name for the town, Rijsel, has the same meaning (" Ryssel " in French Flemish, from " ter Yssel " meaning " to / at the island ").

A second theory suggests the name came from a low stool known as a ' cricket ' in England, which from the side looked like the long, low wicket used in the early days of the game ( originally from the Flemish ' krickstoel ', a low stool on which parishioners knelt in church ).