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| | Flemish Community of Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Since the Flemish parliamentary assembly, the FlemishParliament, united its regional and community institutions immediately after they were established by the Belgian legislator,the word 'Flanders' refers to either the Flemish people (or nation), or to its political institutions. |
 | | The ensemble of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium is oftenreferred to as Flemish (Vlaams in Dutch), although the standard language used in Flanders is the same as in the Netherlands, Dutch. |
 | | Belgium was confirmed asa buffer state by the Vienna Congress, but deprived from its military strongholds, including Maastricht and Givet (explainingthose surprising indentations in the Belgian border), and its bordering to the Scheldt river, transferred to Holland, that closed this river for half a century. |
| www.therfcc.org /flemish-community-of-belgium-44694.html (1359 words) |
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