Flanders Definition

flăndərz
pronoun
(historical) The Countship of Flanders, of varying extent.
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A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.

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Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).

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Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
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The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.

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Origin of Flanders

  • From French Flandres, from Dutch Vlaanderen (pl.), from Middle Dutch Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdra ‘waterlogged land’, from *flaumaz ‘flowing, current (water)’ (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- ‘flow’ (compare Ancient Greek plŷma (“dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

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