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Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [26] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".
Nevertheless, many Flemish people were also involved in the resistance, joining local organizations like the Kempische Legioen (KL) in Limburg, and support from Flemish resistance members of the Witte Brigade and the Nationale Koninklijke Beweging (NKB) allowed the Allied armies to capture the vital port of Antwerp intact in 1944.
Belgium. (1 January 2024) [ 2 ] The area and population figures are given for the Flemish Region, not the Community. Flanders (/ ˈflændərz /; Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə (n)] ⓘ) [ a ] is the Dutch -speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Often these individuals were the descendants of people associated with Charlemagne. The county of Flanders originated from the Gau of Pagus Flandrensis , led by the Forestiers dynasty, who had been appointed by Charlemagne, who had made a small contribution by uniting small feudal territories in the higher parts of the Flemish Valley .
The Flemish Region (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest, pronounced [ˌvlaːms xəˈʋɛst] ⓘ), [ 5 ][ a ] usually simply referred to as Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə (n)] ⓘ), [ b ] is one of the three regions of Belgium —alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. [ 6 ] Covering the northern portion of the country, the ...
The Flemish Community[a] is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilities only within the precise geographical boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital. Unlike in the French Community of Belgium, [3] the competences of ...
Spanish Netherlands. The Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) [4] was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435, Museo del Prado, Madrid Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, National Gallery, London. Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives. [1]