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What does Flanders mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) The County of Flanders, of varying extent.
  2. 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.
  3. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
  4. Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
  5. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
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Flanders may no longer be Europe's main gate, but it remains a busy portal with a muscular economic hinterland.
The language spoken in Flanders is Dutch, which is commonly called Flemish.
Stefan made me realise for the first time what witty and professional writers Flanders and Swann were.
In 1914 he volunteered for military service and served as a medical orderly in Flanders.
Instead, I chose a collection of 300 World War I letters written from the trenches, tents and field hospitals of Flanders.
Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.

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