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Flanders shares its borders with Wallonia in the south, Brussels being an enclave within the Flemish Region. The rest of the border is shared with the Netherlands (Zeelandic Flanders in Zeeland, North Brabant and Limburg) in the north and east, and with France (French Flanders in Hauts-de-France) and the North Sea in the west.
Map of Flanders and Hainault after comtesse Jeanne de Constantinople (1200–1244) Trade partners included England, the Baltic countries and France over sea, and the Rhineland and Italy over land. The wool trade with England was of special importance to the rising cloth industry in Flanders.
The Flemish Region (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest, pronounced [ˌvlaːms xəˈʋɛst] ⓘ), [a] [b] usually simply referred to as Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə(n)] ⓘ), [c] is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. [5]
Kortrijk (/ ˈ k ɔːr t r aɪ k / KORT-ryke, [2] Dutch: [ˈkɔrtrɛik] ⓘ; West Flemish: Kortryk or Kortrik; French: Courtrai), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray [3] [4] (/ k ʊər ˈ t r eɪ / koor-TRAY), [2] is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
CC Hauts de Flandre: Government • Mayor (2020–2026) Hervé Saison [1] Area. 1. ... Hondschoote borders Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.
Ooidonk Castle from the rear Ooidonk Castle from the left Ooidonk Castle on the Ferraris map (around 1775) Ooidonk Castle (Dutch: Kasteel Ooidonk) is a castle in the city of Deinze, East Flanders, Belgium. The castle is the residence of the current Count t'Kint de Roodenbeke. Ooidonk Castle is situated at an altitude of 11 meters.
French Flanders (French: Flandre française [flɑ̃dʁ(ə) fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen; West Flemish: Frans-Vloandern) 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.
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