English is widely spoken although the official Belgian languages are French and Flemish, a Dutch-related language similar to Afrikaans. |
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Ordinarily, a specific request is made, such as inquiring if a text in Polish could be translated into Flemish, for example. |
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Flemish pictures of the 15th century often show devotional woodcuts fixed to a wall with sealing wax, and already flyblown and curling up. |
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Two separate exhibitions focus on the drawings and oil sketches of the Flemish master. |
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During the feudal period between the ninth and twelfth centuries AD, the Flemish and Walloon cultures continued developing along separate lines. |
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In Europe atmospheric perspective remained in abeyance for 1,000 years, to be rediscovered by the early 15th-century, Flemish painters. |
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This was not a particularly easy task as the country is made up of two predominant peoples, the Flemish and the Walloons. |
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We were told not to speak too much at all, as you may upset the French, or the Flemish, or the Walloons, or the Dutch, or the organisers. |
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The parliament is a Greek temple, the city hall, a Flemish Gothic guildhall. |
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I was also singing and studying the great Flemish choral music of the Renaissance. |
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The Frenchspeakers, or Walloons, know it is not their own, and the Dutch-speaking Flemish cannot warm to it. |
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The Flemish version of the news item has a dig at Dutch cuisine, because they only got two 2-star restaurants. |
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He thinks little of the Italians and Flemish and still less of the Germans. |
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So how can it be that educated Dutch and Flemish people still make so many spelling errors that a dictation can be a challenge? |
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The original five-bay facade is two-and-a-half stories high and faced with glazed header bricks laid in a Flemish bond. |
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In the next forty years, English and Flemish settlers poured into the rich arable coastlands of south Wales. |
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The closest relatives to this language are Flemish, Dutch, and the Plattdeutsch dialects still spoken in Germany's Rhineland. |
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Those residing in northern Belgium speak Flemish, which is derived from Dutch and German. |
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In 1380 he helped to quell a revolt by the Flemish burghers against the count, which ended in 1382 with the massacre of 26,000 Flemings. |
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Most readers were probably hazy about Flemish and the Flemings, and French is the language of the trading company that Marlow has joined. |
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April is ploughing time for the Flemish farmers and the brown furrowed fields dominate the landscape. |
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At the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French army was disastrously defeated by Flemish burghers. |
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The capacious structure is brick, in Flemish bond, with a three-stage wooden tower. |
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Edward's response was to join forces with the Flemish in 1337 and this was the principal cause of the war. |
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Politically, the Walloons have always looked to France as their natural defenders, while the Flemish population has looked to Germany. |
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A quantity of lace includes Chantilly, Brussels, Flemish, Antwerp, and Devon bobbin lace. |
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In an old Flemish custom, Christmas gifts were brought in sabots, or wooden shoes. |
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A Flemish string can be twisted far more than an endless loop type, so brace adjustment for this style of string has a much greater range. |
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The high numbers of Flemish names in the south and Walloon names in the north indicate long time internal mobility. |
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In 1210, he invaded Ireland with a fleet of 700 ships carrying his feudal host and a force of Flemish mercenaries. |
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The Flemish, those residing in Flanders, the northern half of the country, speak Dutch. |
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Like Buck's Store and Dougherty's Tavern, the Custom House is laid in a Flemish bond with glazed headers. |
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The leaders of the invasion spoke French but the soldiers were Flemish, Welsh, and from southwest England. |
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The new government made it the language of administration and education, hoping that it would replace Flemish, Walloon, and German dialects. |
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Not only chronologically, but also thematically, one can find Spanish, Flemish, Portuguese, German and French authors. |
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Distinctive Flemish and Walloon parties, fighting for language rights and more autonomy, if not outright independence, mobilized support. |
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King Matthias Corvinus, a great supporter of the arts, had at his court Italian, Burgundian, Flemish, and German musicians. |
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Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk One of a pair of mid nineteenth-century antiquarian buffets, incorporating seventeenth-century Flemish carvings. |
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Cipriano was the great 16th century Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore, who spent more-or-less his entire career working in Italy. |
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This housed his Flemish, Dutch and French seventeenth and eighteenth-century paintings, as well as the major Boucher portraits of his sister. |
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John, Duke of Berry, younger brother of Philip the Bold, was an enthusiastic book collector and attracted Flemish artists to his court. |
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The incidence of public violent crime is comparatively low among the Flemish. |
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The Flemish bond brickwork with decoratively glazed headers recalls colonial architectural details. |
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The Vandyke print gets its name from its similarity in color to the deep brown pigment, Vandyke brown, used by the Flemish painter Van Dyck. |
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In the eighteenth century, most North American consumers purchased French, Flemish, Brussels or English lace imported by local merchants. |
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A Flemish bond is created by courses of alternating stretchers and headers, with every header centered over a stretcher above and below. |
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He hasn't picked up French or Flemish despite living in Belgium for three years. |
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The revival of interest in Flemish painting at the time is reflected in the glazing. |
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His five-bay building, with its glazed header Flemish bond brick facade had a gambrel roof typical of local vernacular architecture. |
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Prince Philippe, during a press conference to mark the birth spoke French and fluent Flemish. |
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Another is that the enemy consisted not only of the French but of native speakers of Flemish who supported the French crown. |
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Belgium was founded 175 years ago, when the Walloons and the Flemish decided to forge a common national identity. |
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Within France itself, other spoken languages include Breton, Flemish, Spanish, and Catalan. |
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How does translation into English affect the meaning of documents originally in Flemish or Dutch or German or Latin? |
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The language spoken in Flanders is Dutch, which is commonly called Flemish. |
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Dutch is also the official language in Flandres, Belgium, where it is called Flemish. |
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My father went directly from being a buck private in basic training to Master Sergeant in an intelligence position because he could speak French, Flemish, and German. |
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For that reason one is amused rather than taken aback by a Flemish diptych of the turn of the fifteenth century from the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. |
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Flemish bond uses alternating headers and stretchers in each course. |
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The left section comprised mainly of Bretons, the central section were Norman under Willliam's command and the right section was made up of the French and Flemish. |
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The one great handicap for Dutch in the south was that the majority of the Dutch-speaking population spoke a dialect of the language, in other words, a form of Flemish. |
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Visitors can see the royal palace, the 13 th century Ridderzaal and the Mauritshuis with its unique collection of Dutch, Flemish and German old masters. |
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In elections last May, however, the Flemish separatists won big, which could eventually pave the way to a partitioned nation. |
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The English and their Flemish allies cheered and celebrated the victory in disbelief. |
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There is no such thing as plagiarism in politics and this is where the experience of the Basques, Catalans and Flemish over 25 years may be helpful. |
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In 1998, Bill Gates was meeting with Flemish Minister and President Van den Brande when he got a pie in the kisser. |
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In 1787 the count hired Pierre Cloostermans, a Flemish ceramic painter living in Paris, to continue making creamware and to develop a formula for hard-paste porcelain. |
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The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. |
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Regional languages and dialects such as Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Basque, Alsatian, and Flemish are still in use, and some are taught in regional schools. |
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It has sought to preserve the delicate political balance of Belgium's Flemish and French speaking regions, mainly by making concessions to the wealthier Flanders. |
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Today the museum contains examples of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, English, and Spanish paintings executed between the early Renaissance and the early twentieth century. |
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Greater emphasis will be given to secular manuscript illustration and to the important role of English patronage of Flemish illuminated manuscripts. |
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Flemish and Netherlandish art deeply impressed Cassatt during her student years and provided many of her enduring themes, secular as well as sacred. |
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She has since worked as associate producer and production assistant on numerous, and varied productions, including a 10-minute film for Flemish Government. |
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Languages of source texts include not only French and Italian, Latin and Greek, but Arabic, Dutch, Flemish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Slavonian, Spanish, Turkish, and Welsh. |
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I tell you, when I hear all these guys chatting away in Flemish interspersed with the names of various models of firearm, then I have some hope of understanding the Flemish. |
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Concert FM's coverage of the Arts Festival continues with this Flemish ensemble that brings to life music from the Golden Age of the polyphonists in the Low Countries. |
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The need for such a contextual foundation of the study becomes evident in the chapter on Italian responses to Flemish landscape paintings and portraiture. |
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The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond with a molded brick water table. |
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A certain confusion arises with artists living in cities on the border between the two parts of the Netherlands as to whether they form part of Dutch or Flemish art. |
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Beginning in the sixteenth century, both the Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons to their south came under the rule of a series of foreign powers. |
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Each political party had its representatives in the airline's management, and the tensions between the Walloon and Flemish halves created further conflicts. |
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From the 1960s, most political parties, which had previously stood in elections in both Flemish and Walloon areas, split down linguistic divides. |
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Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art. |
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Late that century, and continuing into the 20th century, Flemish movements evolved to counter this situation. |
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With a writer of Hendrik Conscience's stature, Flemish literature rose ahead of French literature in Belgium's early history. |
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Influential Flemish writers include Ernest Claes, Stijn Streuvels and Felix Timmermans. |
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They were followed by a younger generation, including Paul van Ostaijen and Gaston Burssens, who activated the Flemish Movement. |
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Flemish pupils are also obligated to follow English lessons as their third language. |
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Then Corelio with De Gentenaar, the oldest extant Flemish newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad and De Standaard. |
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Flemish, consisting today of West and East Flemish and Zealandic, was spoken in the County of Flanders. |
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Staschke has said that he draws inspiration from Dutch and Flemish Vanitas still-life painting. |
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Flemish bond red brick was used to build the Manor which has been added to over several centuries. |
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Brook House is the front wing, bagging the main facade, notable for its Flemish bond brickwork, stone dressings and pedimented doorway. |
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Lodewijk De Witte, governor of Flemish Brabant, said one train had apparently ignored a red light. |
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Management and integration with IT systems for the provincial government of Flemish Brabant. |
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He went from a Dacron string to a Phase 1 string and then built a Flemish twist string. |
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Whaling was an important economic activity from the 9th until the 13th century for Flemish whalers. |
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In the late 14th century, naval warfare with England was conducted largely by hired Scots, Flemish and French merchantmen and privateers. |
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In response, Edward proclaimed himself king of France to encourage the Flemish to rise in open rebellion against the French king. |
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The Merchant Adventurers, the company which enjoyed the monopoly of the Flemish wool trade, relocated from Antwerp to Calais. |
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Renaissance arrived through the influence of wealthy Italian and Flemish merchants who invested in the profitable commerce overseas. |
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The English pound halved in value against the Flemish pound between 1540 and 1551 as a result. |
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Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry. |
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Pole arms reached new prominence with the development of the Flemish and Swiss infantry armed with pikes and other long spears. |
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It was built in 1935 by ES Roberts from Flemish bond brickwork with Art Deco features. |
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Flemish weavers who settled in the area in the 14th century helped develop the industry. |
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The portrait identified by Jardine depicts the Flemish scholar Jan Baptist van Helmont. |
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In the Flemish Community, bachelor's degrees may be either academic or professional. |
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In Belgium's Flemish Community the doctorandus title was only used by those who actually started their doctoral work. |
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The oldest painting was commissioned by the County of the City of Coventry in 1586 and produced by Adam van Noort, a refugee Flemish artist. |
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The Flemish set with the Story of Abraham still at Hampton Court Palace is one grand set from late in his reign. |
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The Flemish artists Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens discovered Holbein through Arundel. |
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Dr Gillmeister believes that not only the name but the sport itself is of Flemish origin. |
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During the 12th and 13th centuries, Poland became a destination for German, Flemish and to a lesser extent Scottish, Danish and Walloon migrants. |
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Flemish Baroque painting shared a part in this trend, while also continuing to produce the traditional categories. |
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Which 16th century Flemish geographer devised a system of map projection for navigators that is still in use today? |
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Which 16th century Flemish cartographer developed a system of map projection that is still in modern use? |
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The Southern Dutch cuisine consists of the cuisines of the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg and the Flemish Region in Belgium. |
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In the sixteenth century the crown began to employ Flemish court painters who have left a portrait record of royalty. |
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In the late 14th century naval warfare with England was conducted largely by hired Scots, Flemish and French merchantmen and privateers. |
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Charters were copied almost verbatim from those used in England, and early burgesses usually invited English and Flemish settlers. |
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In particular, the Flemish region of Belgium has the highest waste diversion rate in Europe. |
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Many Flemish people still speak dialects of Dutch in their local environment. |
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Freshly cooked, unpeeled brown shrimp are often served as a snack accompanying beer, typically a sour ale or Flemish red such as Rodenbach. |
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In 1443 the island was already inhabited but active settlement only began with the arrival of the noble Flemish native Wilhelm Van der Haegen. |
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Because there was such a large Flemish settlement, the Azores became known as the Flemish Islands or the Isles of Flanders. |
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The origins of French art were very much influenced by Flemish art and by Italian art at the time of the Renaissance. |
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Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken are Bruges, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, and Ypres. |
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While standard Dutch and most Dutch dialects do not pronounce the final n, West Flemish typically drops the e and pastes the n to the base word. |
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In Dutch, the indefinite article does not depend on gender, while in West Flemish, it does. |
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West Flemish inherited many words from Saxon settlers, and later on received loanwords from wool and cloth trade with England. |
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Even when words exist in Dutch and West Flemish, their meaning is not guaranteed to be the same. |
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The influx of Flemish printers and the city's intellectual tolerance made Amsterdam a centre for the European free press. |
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Huguenots came after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, while the Flemish Protestants came during the Eighty Years' War. |
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He was pushed back and then had to deal with the Flemish invasion of Artois. |
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Philip was unhorsed by the Flemish pikemen in the heat of battle, and were it not for his plate mail armor he would have probably been killed. |
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The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. |
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Flemish weavers had gone over to Worstead and North Walsham in Norfolk in the 12th century and established the woolen industry. |
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Many of the Calvinist merchants of Antwerp and also of other Flemish cities left Flanders and emigrated to the north. |
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Flemish feeling of identity and consciousness grew through the events and experiences of war. |
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This resulted also in the establishment of a Flemish Parliament and Government. |
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These victories for the advocates of much more Flemish autonomy are very much in parallel with opinion polls that show a structural increase in. |
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They are governed by the Brussels Region for economics affairs and by the Flemish Community for educational and cultural issues. |
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As mentioned above, Flemish institutions such as the Flemish Parliament and Government, represent the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. |
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Flanders shares its borders with Wallonia in the south, Brussels being an enclave within the Flemish Region. |
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Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Leuven are the largest cities of the Flemish Region. |
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Brussels is a part of Flanders as far as community matters are concerned, but does not belong to the Flemish Region. |
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The province of Flemish Brabant is the most recent one, being formed in 1995 after the splitting of the province of Brabant. |
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Brussels, an enclave within the province of Flemish Brabant, is not divided into any province nor is it part of any. |
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These institutions are independent from the educational, cultural and social institutions that depend directly on the Flemish Government. |
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For the subsidised schools, the main costs such as the teacher's wages and building maintenance completely borne by the Flemish government. |
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This competition has been pinpointed as one of the main reasons for the high overall quality of the Flemish education. |
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Healthcare is a federal matter, but the Flemish Government is responsible for care, health education and preventive care. |
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At first sight, Flemish culture is defined by the Dutch language and its gourmandic mentality, as compared to the more Calvinistic Dutch culture. |
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The City of Brussels is also the capital of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community. |
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Geographically and linguistically, it is a bilingual enclave in the monolingual Flemish Region. |
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Now, people voting for a Flemish party have to vote separately for 6 directly elected members of the Flemish Parliament. |
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Belgian cuisine is characterised by the combination of French cuisine with the more hearty Flemish fare. |
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Research shows that the distance between French Flemish and Dutch is greater than that between Dutch and German. |
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Henry was pushed onto the defensive as French, Flemish and Angevin forces began to pillage the Normandy countryside. |
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The Norwegians and the Flemish mercenaries hired by Tostig were largely without armour and carried only personal weapons. |
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Though due to their intermediary position between West Flemish and Brabantian, the East Flemish dialects have also been grouped with the latter. |
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The Dutch dialects spoken by this group are Brabantic, South Guelderish, Limburgish and East and West Flemish. |
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Generally, the Flemish will seldom identify themselves as being Dutch and vice versa, especially on a national level. |
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The Dutch King allowed the use of both Dutch and French dialects as administrative languages in the Flemish provinces. |
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At the same time East Flemish forms a continuum with both Brabantic and West Flemish. |
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A flag with a completely black lion had been in wide use before 1991 when the current version was officially adopted by the Flemish Community. |
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The Flemish authorities also use two logos of a highly stylized black lion which show the claws and tongue in either red or black. |
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The Flemish population in the north speaks Dutch, the Walloon population in the south speaks French or German. |
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Already cultivated in Algarve, the accessibility of Madeira attracted Genoese and Flemish traders keen to bypass Venetian monopolies. |
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In September 2010 the Flemish Government decided to replace the bridge by a series of tunnels. |
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It quickly became a classic standard work for generations of young Dutch and Flemish artists in the 17th century. |
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In the course of the nineteenth century the Flemish movement stood up for the rights of Dutch, mostly called Flemish. |
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In 1586 Flemish engineer Simon Stevin derived the mechanical advantage of the inclined plane, and it was included with the other simple machines. |
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A Flemish alchemist, Jan Baptista van Helmont, was the first person to formally recognize gas as a state of matter. |
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A Flemish claim is lace on the alb of a worshiping priest in a painting about 1485 by Hans Memling. |
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Flemish cloth nonetheless remained a highly valued product, and it was highly dependent on English wool. |
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Flemish tapestries and, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Brussels tapestry hung on the walls of castles throughout Europe. |
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The brutal suppression of the Peasants' War marks the starting point of the modern Flemish movement. |
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Some organisations, like Verdinaso appealed directly to Flemish separatist ideologies, though they did not become very popular. |
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Even though the strike had been intended to be nationwide, Flemish workers appeared reluctant to support it. |
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The prospective Flemish invasion forced Henry to return to England in early July. |
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They traced their origins to Freskin, a man believed to have Flemish origins. |
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Of these dialects, Brabantic and East Flemish are spoken exclusively by the Southern Dutch, whereas Hollandic and Dutch Saxon are solely spoken by Northerners. |
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Although this would allow for seven parliaments and governments, when the Communities and Regions were created in 1980, Flemish politicians decided to merge both. |
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French Flemish is taught in a few schools in the French Westhoek. |
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She was the daughter of Simon Bening, the last great master of the Flemish manuscript illumination tradition, and became court painter to Henry VIII after Holbein's death. |
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The following differences are listed by their Dutch spelling, as some different letters have evolved to the same sound in Dutch, but stayed separate sounds in West Flemish. |
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Education in Belgium is run by the language communities, with separate higher education systems being administered by the Flemish Community and the French Community. |
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Norsemen, Flemish spearmen, Frankish knights, Moorish mounted archers, and Berber light cavalry were the main types of mercenaries available and used in the conflict. |
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With linguistic variation, these ships were called carraca or nau in Portuguese, Spanish and Genoese, caraque or nef in French, and kraak in Dutch and Flemish. |
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Charles was born in 1500 as the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile in the Flemish city of Ghent, which was part of the Habsburg Netherlands. |
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Charles also paid tribute to Isabella's memory with music, when in 1540, he commissioned the Flemish composer Thomas Crecquillon to compose new music as a memorial to her. |
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Maurice continued sending secret offers to Isabella after Albert had died in July 1621, through the intermediary of the Flemish painter and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens. |
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After having obtained 30,000 marks as a ransom for the hostages he had taken from the Flemish cities he had captured, Philip quickly retraced his steps to reach Dam. |
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In art, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting ranged from the strange work of Hieronymus Bosch to the everyday life depictions of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. |
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He also commissioned a Flemish artist, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, to make a series of tapestries on the Armada, based on Augustine Ryther's engravings. |
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Up to the present, the Brabant lion features as the primary charge on the coats of arms of both Flemish and Walloon Brabant, and of the Dutch province of North Brabant. |
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These entities were merged, although geographically the Flemish Community, which has a broader cultural mandate, covers Brussels, whereas the Flemish Region does not. |
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The Brussels Capital Region is an enclave within the Flemish Region. |
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At the same time, Flemish merchants were ejected from England. |
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Modern Germanic peoples include the Afrikaners, Austrians, Danes, Dutch, English, Flemish, Frisians, Germans, Icelanders, Lowland Scots, Norwegians, and Swedes. |
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He was also friends with the Flemish Jesuit Andreas Schottus. |
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The resulting suffering is still remembered by Flemish organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage in Diksmuide at the monument of the Yser Tower. |
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Such is the case with West Flemish, which is considered a Dutch dialect but is far more remote from the standard language than most Dutch Low Saxon varieties are. |
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All the political parties that advocated a significant increase of Flemish autonomy gained votes as well as seats in the Belgian federal parliament. |
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The first so-called hedge sermon was held in the cemetery of Boeschepe in the always turbulent Flemish Westkwartier on Sunday morning, July 12, timed to coincide with mass. |
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Since 2006, certain polls have started showing Flemish independence. |
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The description of Reni's feminine style sounds very much like Malvasia's own account of Reni's first teacher, the Flemish expatriot Denijs Calvaert. |
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Flemish Bond and English Bond are two methods of doing what? |
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Members of the Flemish Parliament who were elected in the Brussels Region cannot vote on affairs belonging to the competences of the Flemish Region. |
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The official language for all Flemish institutions is Dutch. |
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Though interpreted by many Flemish nationalists as a statement, this phrase is merely a quotation from the Belgian constitution and has no further legal value whatsoever. |
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In actual money changing, there is the sale or a contract similar to a sale where a ducat is sold for 52 Flemish groschen, and a certain money is evaluated with another. |
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It is built of brick in Flemish bond beneath a slate roof with extensive use of oak and polished limestone tiles in the hall, kitchen and bathrooms inside. |
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Gerhard Kremer, a Flemish geographer, published his first map in 1569 and called it the Mercator, which was derived from a globe he had made in 1541 detailing loxodromes. |
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Flemish victories, like the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 were celebrated and a Flemish cultural movement, led by figures like Hendrik Conscience was born. |
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This prompted a renewed Flemish movement in the years following the war. |
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It was for the sheer spectacle and glory of the capacious walls and stairwells of their grand palaces that the great Flemish tapestries of the Baroque period were woven. |
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In the 1980s and 90s, the economic centre of Belgium continued to shift further to Flanders and is now concentrated in the populous Flemish Diamond area. |
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This word was considered particularly relevant for the Old Frisians who were advocating separation from the new Flemish arrivals seeking refuge in Friesland. |
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This reform was a response to the Flemish demand for cultural autonomy. |
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The area of the Flemish Region is represented on the maps above. |
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The days of prosperity were gone, however, and a trend of unemployment and partial economic dependence on the formerly poorer Flemish Region began, and continues to this day. |
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Dutch and Flemish paintings enjoyed more equal international admiration. |
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During the 17th century, in common with other Channel ports, Teignmouth ships suffered from raids from Dunkirkers, who were privateers from Flemish ports. |
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The Flemish Parliament and Flemish Government have their seats in Brussels, as do the Parliament of the French Community and the Government of the French Community. |
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This brought the region great economic prosperity, which was not mirrored in poorer Flanders and the result was a large amount of Flemish immigration to Wallonia. |
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The economic inequalities and linguistic divide between the two are major sources of political conflict in Belgium and is a major factor in Flemish separatism. |
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Since World War II the importance of heavy industry has greatly diminished, and the Flemish Region surpassed Wallonia in wealth as Wallonia declined economically. |
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Place names attest to Flemish having been spoken since the 8th century in the area that was ceded to France in the 17th century and which became known as French Flanders. |
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the economic centre of the country continued to shift northwards and is now concentrated in the populous Flemish Diamond area. |
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Located in the cultural centre, at the back of the theatre, it presents paintings by French, Flemish, Spanish and Italian artists, as well as sculptures. |
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Nonetheless, this distinction is conventionally awarded to the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius who in 1570 published the collection of maps Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. |
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Only isolated examples survive of native artwork from the late Middle Ages and of works created or strongly influenced by artists of Flemish origin. |
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This development potentially threatened Normandy, and Henry began to finance a proxy war in Flanders, promoting the claims of William's Flemish rivals. |
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From the eleventh century French, Flemish and particularly English became the main languages of Scottish burghs, most of which were located in the south and east. |
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These two vowels were distinguished only in Limburgish and Low Rhenish at the eastern end, and in western Flemish and coastal Hollandic on the western end. |
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The Le Nain brothers in France and many Flemish artists including Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers the Elder and Younger painted peasants, but rarely townsfolk. |
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There were a number of artists at this date who painted famed altarpieces, that are stylistically quite distinct from both the Italian and the Flemish. |
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In 1627, he went back to Antwerp where he remained for five years, painting more affable portraits which still made his Flemish patrons look as stylish as possible. |
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Flemish however had been used since the 14th century to refer to the language and dialects of both the peoples of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant. |
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