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.

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

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 )

English, German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Walloon, Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian and Resian use W in native words.

In German it is however generally Wallonenland: Le païs de Valons, Belgolalia, Wallonenland, in " Le Grand Dictionnaire Royal " Augsbourg, 1767 ; The name of the churches ' consecration is in Touraine assemblées, in Bretagne pardons, in the North Departments sometimes kermesses, sometimes as in the Walloon country, ducasses ( from dedicatio ) In English, it is Walloon country ( see further James Shaw ).

The division into political regions does not correspond with the language-group division: " Vlaanderen " ( Flanders ), " la région wallonne " ( Walloon region, including the German community but generally called Wallonia ), and the bilingual ( French-Dutch ) Brussels region, also the federal capital of Belgium.

All Communities thus have a precise and legally established area where they can exercise their competencies: the Flemish Community has legal authority ( for its Community competencies ) only within the Dutch language area ( which coincides with the Flemish Region ) and bilingual Brussels-Capital language area ( which coincides with the Region by that name ); the French-speaking Community analogously has powers only within the French language area of the Walloon Region and in the Brussels-Capital Region, and the German Community in the German language area, which is a small part of the province of Liège in the Walloon region, and borders Germany.

It has been noted that Melo's German, Walloon, and Italian troops actually surrendered first, while the Spanish infantry cracked only after repeated cavalry charges and a vicious spell under the French guns.

Malmedy and Waimes are the two municipalities in the Walloon Region with facilities for German speakers.

Aubange ( German: Ibingen, Luxembourgish: Éibeng, Walloon: Åbindje ) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg.

Martelange ( German: Martelingen, Luxembourgish: Maartel, Walloon: Måtlindje ) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg.

Messancy ( German: Metzig, Luxembourgish: Miezeg, Walloon: Messanceye ) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg.

Fauvillers ( German: Feitweiler, Luxembourgish: Fäteler, Walloon: Faiviè ) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg.

The town sits in a sharp bend of the river Semois ( German: Sesbach, Walloon: Simwès, in France: Semoy ) whose total length is 210 km.

This performance has been recorded and is now published by the non-profit association " Musique en Wallonie " under the reference MEW 0884-0885 in a two CD set accompanied with a book containing the Walloon text and its French, Dutch and English translation, and introductory texts written in French, Dutch, German and English.

Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German army to Moscow in 1915.

This however soon ended when a large number of the German inhabitants of Elbing fled before the Soviet Red Army approached the city during World War II.

Later when Paris was encircled by German troops, Gambetta fled Paris by means of a hot air balloon and he became the virtual dictator of the war effort which was carried on from the rural provinces.

On 17 April 1941, after King Peter II and other members of the government fled the country, the remaining representatives of the government and military met with the German officials in Belgrade.

The World Federation was one of innumerable fronts operated by the German communist Willi Münzenberg, a member of the Reichstag who had fled to France in 1933.

Most of its German population fled to the " mainland " of Germany during the war.

In 1945 Polish and Soviet troops seized the town and it was subsequently attached to Poland, while the remaining German population which had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled.

Celebrated and feared Baltic Fleet sailors, one of the bastions of the new regime led by Pavel Dybenko, shamefully fled from the German army at Narva.

The fact that he fled to Constantinople, where he received protection, makes it probable that his rise to papacy might have been associated with the policy of the Greek Emperor, who at this time was pushing to displace the German influence in Salerno.

The Allied resolution on the " orderly transfer " of German population became the legitimation of the expulsion of Germans from the certain parts of Central Europe, if they had not already fled from the advancing Red Army.

When Swedish colleagues feared for a possible German occupation, he managed to leave on a cargo ship, together with Ernst Cassirer ( the former rector of Hamburg University ) to New York City to become part of the wider community of intellectual émigrés who fled there.

Almost all of the German inhabitants fled or were forcibly expelled between 1945 and 1949 and were settled in Allied Occupation Zones in Germany.

With the rise of Nazism and the ascent to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, many German intellectuals and cultural figures, both Jewish and non-Jewish, fled Germany for the United States, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world.

** The World War I Allies demand that the Netherlands extradite the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has fled there.

At Vossenack, the 112th ′ s 2nd Battalion disintegrated after constant shelling and fled a German attack.

In the last months of World War II some five million German civilians from the German provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia fled the onslaught of the Red Army and became refugees in Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and Saxony.

Some neo-Nazis in Chile derive their ideology from the writings of Nicolás Palacios, while others follow an orthodox Nazi ideology influenced by Miguel Serrano and German Nazis who fled to the country after World War II.

In 1940, because she had expressed strong anti-Nazi sentiments since the early 1930s, she fled Lillehammer before the invading German army reached the town.

To this end, he accommodated Absurd frontman Hendrik Möbus while the latter had fled to the United States in order to evade German authorities.

Most of the German population fled or was expelled to post-war Germany.

The remaining German inhabitants who had not fled from the Eastern Front were expelled by Soviet troops, and the town was partly resettled with Poles transferred from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

* Others fled with the retreating German army in 1944.

St. Florian was settled by Roman Catholic German immigrants who fled Germany during the Kulturkampf persecutions of Catholics.

Towards the end of the war, hundreds of SS troops along with members of the SD fled to the island, reinforcing the German contingent already there.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

The moving of millions of the German master-race, from the very heart of Junkerdom, to make room for the Polish Slavs whom they had enslaved and openly planned to exterminate was a drastic operation, but there was little doubt that it was historically justified.

Heydrich, in opening the Conference, followed the reasoning and even the phraseology of the order issued earlier by Goering which authorized the Final Solution as `` a complement to '' previous `` solutions '' for eliminating the Jews from German living space through violence, economic strangulation, forced emigration, and evacuation.

Errors in technical terminology suggest that the over-all translation from the German may not convey quite everything Mr. Remarque hoped to tell us.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has been said to have taken nearly all of his political philosophy from Aristotle.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The conventional symbol Z possibly comes from the German word ( atomic number ).

With German being a pluricentric language, Austrian dialects should not be confused with the variety of Standard German spoken by most Austrians, which is distinct from that of Germany or Switzerland.

Distinctions in vocabulary persist, for example, in culinary terms, where communication with Germans is frequently difficult, and administrative and legal language, which is due to Austria's exclusion from the development of a German nation-state in the late 19th century and its manifold particular traditions.

There are many official terms that differ in Austrian German from their usage in most parts of Germany.

Speakers from those regions, even those speaking Standard German, can usually be easily identified by their accent, even by an untrained listener.

The German dialects of South Tyrol have been influenced by local Romance languages, in particular with many loan words from Italian, and Ladin.

* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

The word Angst has existed since the 8th century, from the Proto-Indo-European root * anghu -, " restraint " from which Old High German angust developed.

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.