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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Flanders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		At this time, for most, the term Flanders is normally taken to refer to either the political, social, cultural and linguistic community (and the corresponding official institution, the Flemish Community), either the geographical area, one of the three regions in Belgium, namely the Flemish Region.
		During the late Middle Ages Flanders' trading towns (notably Ghent and Bruges) made it one of the most urbanised parts of Europe, weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.
		Flanders saw some of the greatest losses of life of the First World War including the battles of Ypres and the Somme.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Flanders (2633 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
		In his exasperation Saladin invaded the Kingdom of Jerusalem and, although Guy de Lusignan gathered all his forces to repel the attack, on 4 July, 1187, Saladin's army annihilated that of the Christians on the shores of Lake Tiberias.
		In June, 1189, King Guy de Lusignan, who had been released from captivity, appeared there with the remnant of the Christian army, and, in September of the same year, the Scandinavian fleet arrived, followed by the English and Flemish fleets, commanded respectively by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Jacques d'Avesnes.
		By lavish distribution of lands and franchises, Guy de Lusignan succeeded in attracting to the island colonists, knights, men-at-arms, and civilians; his successors established a government modelled after that of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm (14198 words)

	Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
		Another reason for the significance of Flanders, of less significance in the long run but rather spectacular (if sordid) at the time, was that a Count of Flanders, Baldwin IX, was installed by the Fourth Crusade as the Roman Emperor in Constantinople.
		Marrying Margaret, the heiress of Flanders, Philip began a process of adding, by marriage and conquest, to the Burgundian domain, expanding it into a rival to the throne of France itself.
		Flanders was one of the most prosperous places in Europe, giving the Duke a major source of revenue, and the Free County gave him a foothold in the Empire and in the old Kingdom of Burgundy.
	www.friesian.com /flanders.htm (10691 words)

	Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mainly two languages are spoken in Belgium: Dutch is spoken by the 6 million people in Flanders to the north, French by the 3.5 million Walloons in the south.
		Since 1999, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt from the VLD has led a six-party Liberal-Social Democrat-Greens coalition, often referred to as 'the rainbow government'.
		However, by the 1840s the textile industry of Flanders was in severe crisis and there was famine in Flanders (1846–50).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgium (4942 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Philip IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A truce (1297) became (1303) a permanent peace, conceding Guienne to Edward.
		After the withdrawal of Edward, Philip turned his attention toward Flanders.
		He aided the Flemish towns against the count of Flanders, Guy of Dampierre, and after Guy's defeat (1300), he imposed French rule on the Flemish.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Philip4-Fr.asp (549 words)

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