Historical territory of Flanders in the present-day French region of Hauts-de-France
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County of Flanders
Comté de Flandre(French)
862–1791
Flag
Coat of arms
French Flanders in France (1789 borders)
Capital
Lille
Government
• Type
Province
King of West Francia / King of France
• 862–877
Charles II
• 1774–1791
Louis XVI
Governor of Flanders and Hainaut
• 1694–1711
Louis-François de Boufflers
• 1787–1791
Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix
History
• County created
862
• Disestablished
1791
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of France
Nord
Today part of
France
French Flanders (French: La Flandre française, pronounced[flɑ̃dʁəfʁɑ̃sɛz])[1] is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken. The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the northern border with Belgium. Together, with French Hainaut and Cambrésis, it makes up the French Department of Nord.
Territorial changes due to the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), including French Flanders
^Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen; West Flemish: Frans-Vloandern
Illustré, 1952. FrenchFlanders Ethnologue Report for West Flemish Flemish in France Wikimedia Commons has media related to FrenchFlanders. The Extent of...
into two smaller regions: Walloon Flanders and Maritime Flanders (Westhoek). The first region was predominantly French-speaking already in the 1600s, the...
Moeskroen (that belonged to West Flanders until 1962) France: FrenchFlanders (in the Nord departement) the French westcorner: the region around Dunkirk...
stretched north into Zeelandic Flanders in what is now the Netherlands, and deep into French-speaking northern France. Today, "Flanders" is a term referring to...
Flanders and East Flanders as well as the French department of Nord, part of which makes up the area known as FrenchFlanders. The name Flanders Fields is particularly...
Netherlands FrenchFlandersFrench Netherlands Isogloss Nord-Pas de Calais Seventeen Provinces Lambrechts, Toon (10 September 2014). "French Flemish: group...
Matilda was born into the House of Flanders, the only daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela of France. Flanders was of strategic importance to...
the former County of Flanders, i.e. the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders, Zeelandic Flanders and FrenchFlanders An indication of the...
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the French departments of Nord (FrenchFlanders and French Hainaut) and Pas-de-Calais (Artois). Also within...
official symbol. The flag of Flanders is described as Or, a lion rampant armed and langued Gules. Coat of arms of Flanders List of Belgian flags Flag of...
the French border to Knokke-Heist on the Dutch border. West Flanders has two seaports, the Port of Zeebrugge and the Port of Ostend. West Flanders consists...
greater political autonomy for Flanders within Belgium. It also encompassed nationalists who seek the secession of Flanders from Belgium, either through...
work, discarded it. "In Flanders Fields" was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine Punch. Flanders Fields is a common English...
Flanders joined the Union of Utrecht. In 1678, Walloon Flanders was annexed to France after the Treaties of Nijmegen. Together with Maritime Flanders...
The count of Flanders was the ruler or sub-ruler of the county of Flanders, beginning in the 9th century. Later, the title would be held for a time, by...
Belgium Count of Flanders De Vlaamse Leeuw Flanders Flemish Provinces of Belgium French: Région flamande; German: Flämische Region French: Flandre [flɑ̃dʁ];...
balance one another for native French and Dutch speakers. A large French-speaking population lives around Brussels, in Flanders, though by geography is considered...
House of Flanders was the first dynasty to transform a county function of the Carolingian Empire into a hereditary fiefdom, the County of Flanders, falling...
of Flanders (French: Bataille des Flandres) is the name of several battles fought in Flanders during the First World War: First Battle of Flanders (19...
Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (died 1067). Their children were: Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (c. 1030–1070) Matilda of Flanders (c. 1032–1083). In c...
stew", and in French as carbon(n)ade flamande is a Flemish beef (or pork) and onion stew popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and FrenchFlanders, made with...
in FrenchFlanders. France has long been a patchwork of local customs and regional differences, and while most French people still speak the French language...
LEEL, French: [lil] ; Dutch: Rijsel [ˈrɛisəl]; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within FrenchFlanders. Positioned...
when they both began serving as part of a Red Cross ambulance unit in FrenchFlanders. Maugham, and to a lesser extent Haxton, had been affected by the trial...
border of France and Belgium. In Early Modern English, Romance Flanders was also known as Welch Flanders or Gallike Flanders. The original French name is...
Flanders is bordered to the south and to the east by Belgium. Zeelandic Flanders is the north-eastern part of the large historical region of Flanders...
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