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Flanders, French Flanders, French, region of N France, on the North Sea and along the Belgian border.
Flanders Flandersflăn´derz, former county in the Low Countries, extending along the North Sea and W of the Scheldt (Escaut) River.
Henry of Flanders Henry of Flanders, c.1174-1216, Latin emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), brother and successor of Emperor Baldwin I. The ablest and most respected of the Latin emperors, he fought successfully against the Bulgarians and with varying success against Emperor Theodore I of Nicaea.
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 FLANDERS - LoveToKnow Article on FLANDERS
West Flanders is the portion bordering the North Sea, and its coast-line extends from the French to the Dutch frontier for a little over 40 m.
East Flanders lies east and north-east of the western province, and extends northwards to the neighborhood of Antwerp.
In his time the long contest between Flanders and Holland for the possession of the island of Zeeland was brought to an end by a treaty signed on the 6th of March 1323, by which West Zeeland was assigned to the count of Holland, the rest to the count of Flanders.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FL/FLANDERS.htm   (4476 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Flanders
Flanders then received a French governor, but the tyranny of the French soon brought about an insurrection, in the course of which some 3000 French were slaughtered in Bruges, and at the call of the two patriots, de Coninck and Breydel, the whole country rose in arms.
Philip sent into Flanders a powerful army, which met with a crushing defeat at Courtrai (1302); after another battle, which remained undecided, the King of France resorted to diplomacy, but in vain, and peace was restored only in 1320, after Pope John XXII had induced the Flemings to accept it.
Philip was succeeded by Charles the Bold (1467-1477), the marriage of whose daughter to Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, brought Flanders with the rest of the Low Countries under the rule of the House of Hapsburg in 1477.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - West Flanders
West Flanders (in Flemish, West Vlaanderen), province, north-western Belgium, north-western Europe.
West Flanders is bordered by the Netherlands to...
Ypres, town in south-west Belgium, in West Flanders Province, near Bruges and the French frontier.
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 AllRefer.com - West Flanders (Benelux Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
1,106,829), W Belgium, bordering on the North Sea in the west, on the Netherlands in the northeast, and on France in the south.
West Flanders is drained by the Leie and Yser rivers and has many small canals.
It has considerable fertile soil; grain, flax, potatoes, sugar beets, and tobacco are grown.
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 Boston.com / News / Local / R.I. / Retired Supreme Court justice tired of dissenter's role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On Tuesday, Flanders, 55, will be honored for those dissents, which a watchdog group says laid the groundwork for this year's ballot question seeking more evenly distributed power in state government.
Flanders told The Associated Press he's proud his support for so-called separation of powers began the fight to get the question on the ballot.
In his dissent, Flanders disputed the legality of the tradition of legislators serving on boards and commissions.
www.boston.com /news/local/rhode_island/articles/2004/10/11/retired_supreme_court_justice_tired_of_dissenters_role   (660 words)

  
 WestFlandersHotels and Discount Hotels in West flanders - WestFlandersHotel, Belgium
Grote Markt 41, Kortrijk, West Flanders, Flandre, Belgium
Heilige Geeststraat 1, Bruges, West Flanders, Flandre, Belgium
Hoge Dijken 2, Oudenburg, Bruges, West Flanders, Flandre, Belgium
www.hotel-europe.co.uk /hotel/westflanders.htm   (449 words)

  
 West Flanders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Flanders (Dutch: West-Vlaanderen) is the westernmost province of Flanders and of Belgium.
It has a surface area of 3151 km² and is divided into eight administrative districts (arrondissementen) which contain 64 municipalities.
The whole Belgian North Sea coast, an important destination for tourism in Belgium, is in West Flanders.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Flanders   (116 words)

  
 Darrell Flanders and South West Trading Diversities, Inc.: Admin. Proc. Rel. No. 33-8083 / April 10, 2002
Flanders instructed an independent contractor for South West to offer the AGS promissory notes for sale to customers and prospective customers of South West, and agreed to pay the independent contractor a transaction-based commission for sales of the notes.
Pursuant to Flanders' instructions, South West's independent contractor caused prospective investors to receive offering materials stating that AGS would use the funds it received from the sale of promissory notes to purchase gold bullion in the Republic of Ghana, export the gold to the United Kingdom, and sell it there at a substantial profit.
Flanders and South West be, and hereby are, barred from association with any broker or dealer, with the right to apply for association after eighteen months to the appropriate self-regulatory organization, or if there is none, to the Commission.
www.sec.gov /litigation/admin/33-8083.htm   (671 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Flanders (Benelux Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The name Flanders is also used for all the Dutch-speaking areas of Belgium.
Flanders varied considerably in size in the course of its history and at one time also included Artois and parts of Picardy.
In Belgian Flanders, Dutch is spoken by the majority of the inhabitants.
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 Woodacre's Flanders a West Marin original   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Flanders’ grandmother, uncle and father from the Dickson family in 1921, catching the eye of passing motorists.
Flanders lived her entire life on the family’s 580-acre ranch.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years, George Flanders; daughters and sons-in-law, Marie and John Fitzpatrick; and Jeannie and Gene Freudenberger; grandsons, John Fitzpatrick Jr.; George Fitzpatrick; Michael Fitzpatrick; Daniel Freudenberger; and Michael Freudenberger, all of Woodacre.
www.ptreyeslight.com /stories/jan29_04/flanders_obit.html   (405 words)

  
 West Flanders --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It extends inland from the North Sea coast and is bounded by France on the west and south and by Hainaut, East Flanders, and The Netherlands on the east.
Flanders was created in 1995 in the reorganization of Belgium's provincial administration along ethnic-linguistic lines.
A historic town in West Flanders Province, western Belgium, Ypres was a major trade and manufacturing center of medieval Flanders.
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Zwevegem (Municipality, Province of West Flanders, Belgium) 2002-10-19 ivan sache
Koksijde (Municipality, Province of West Flanders, Belgium) 2002-10-19 ivan sache
Kortrijk (Municipality, Province of West Flanders, Belgium) 2002-10-19 ivan sache
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 Youth - About West Flanders | Het Akkoord | Economic Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There is ample opportunity to practice sports in West Flanders, there are music festivals and there are ideal youth accommodation centres.
West Flanders lies by the sea and can therefore be reached by boat fairly easily.
There is something for everyone in West Flanders : there is the wartime past, with the great number of military cemeteries, the trenches and monuments in the.Westhoek., the Atlantikwall in Ostend and the interactive.In Flanders fields.
www.suffolkcc.gov.uk /accord/youthinfo.html   (932 words)

  
 Flanders --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Flat reclaimed farmland near the border of The Netherlands in the maritime Flanders region of …
In Flanders, two brothers, Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, were working during the first part of the 15th century.
The medieval era is preserved in Brugge, the capital of West Flanders province in Belgium.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003009   (709 words)

  
 Bruges Hotels, West Flanders, Belgium.
Campanile Brugge / Bruges, Jagerstraat 20, Bruges, West Flanders, 8200
Our hotel is perfectly located in the magnificent region of West Flanders, close to numerous attractions and amenities, ideal for exploring this captivating area.
The Hotel Ter Brughe is a 16th century former patrician's house in the late Brugean gothic style located along one of the most picturesque canals in the peaceful old quarter of St Giles near the 14th century Augustine Bridge, only a few minutes away from the city centre.
www.book-hotels-belgium.com /west-flanders-hotels/bruges-hotels.htm   (803 words)

  
 Harelbeke (Municipality, Province of West Flanders, Belgium)
Harelbeke (26,000 inhabitants) is located in the arrondissement of Kortrijk, in the south-west of the Province of West Flanders, 5 km of Kortrijk, 40 km of Ghent, 20 km of Roeselare, 30 km of Lille (France) and 60 km of the North Sea.
Harelbeke became an important city around 1040, when Count Boudewijn V of Flanders established a chapter in the St. Saviour Church (Sint Salvatorskerk).After an administrative reorganization of the County of Flanders, Harelbeke was the capital city of a canton (roede) in 1071.
According to the municipal website, this banner was granted to the Lords of Harelbeke by Boudewijn of Flanders, Emperor of Constantinople.
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 West Flanders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It borders on (clockwise from the the Netherlands the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and Hainaut France and the North Sea.
It has a surface area of km² and is divided into eight administrative (arrondissementen in Dutch) which contain 64 municipalities.
The shaping of America's heartland: The landscape of the Middle West (The Naturalist's America)
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 West Flanders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Now a 13-time stakes winner on the West Coast, the chestnut closed from last...
Williams, now back in Sydney coaching West Harbour, referred to his time in the...
An estimated EUR 5.5 million-worth of damage was caused to a factory in West Flanders after a massive fire on Sunday evening.
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 Euregio Scheldemond @ Figures - Zeeland, East- and West-Flanders - Homepage
The 'Euregio Scheldemond' includes the Provinces of East- and West Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen and West-Vlaanderen) in Belgium and the Province of Zealand (Zeeland) in the Netherlands.
On 16 of November 1989 the Governors of East- and West Flanders and the Provincial Governor in Zealand signed a declaration of intent of cross-border cooperation between the three provinces.
This declaration of intent was formally sealed in 1993 by the signing of an arrangement on inter-provincial cooperation.
www.euregioscheldemond.org /eng/index.asp   (240 words)

  
 belgian red   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Belgian Red was developed in West Flanders region of Belgium.
During World War I the pastures of West Flanders were turned into battlefields which practically eradicated the cattle population.
Belgian Red cattle are now found throughout West Flanders and constitutes about 7% of the Belgian national herd.
www.equineestates.com /library/cattle/belgian_red.htm   (152 words)

  
 BPC ENGLISCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Informing the clubmembers of the basic characteristics of the various breeds, the organisation of expostions and studydays, lectures and meetings, the publication of a magazine called "BPC WEST" collecting all information concerning the club's activities.
Importan is definetely also the offering of services like the distribution of condition- and other seeds, strength- and eggfood, cageinl for the worldexpostion, and so on.
If you are not living in EEG but you are still interested, please be so kind as to send us an e-mail en we will work out a solution.
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 Hedge Row Trench Cemetery, Zillebeke, West Flanders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This cemetery is to the south west of the Woods Cemetery, on the Western edge of the wood.
It was begun in March, 1915 and used until August, 1917, sometimes under the name of Ravine Wood Cemetery; and there were buried in it 94 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 2 from Canada, and 2 whose names and units are unknown.
Son of George and Selina Willett, of 73, Mill House, Kimberworth, Rotherham.
www.silentcities.co.uk /cemeteryh/Hedge%20Row%20Trench%20Cemetery.htm   (158 words)

  
 West-Flanders Hotels, West-Flanders hotel directory, Hotels in West-Flanders, xcapewithus.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Defining the Flanders region is not easy, especially as it also extends into a good part of Belgium.
A flat open region that rises significantly inland with undulating sandy hillocks, Flanders is bordered by the North Sea to the North, by the Aa and Lys rivers to the West, by the mouths of the Escaut river to the East and finally, by the Scarpe to the North.
West Flanders corresponds to the North-west part of Belgium and is bordered by the North Sea and the Lys river.
www.xcapewithus.com /Hot_Deals/West-Flanders-hotels/West-Flanders-hotels.asp   (254 words)

  
 Holiday house West Flanders, Belgium | Authentic holiday houses in West Flanders | Vacation houses in West Flanders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
All authentic holiday houses in West Flanders are special accommodations, from cosy chalets, charming apartments and idyllic cottages to ancient farms and magnificent castles.
Our rustic holiday houses in West Flanders are great vacation rentals for sunny vacations, winter sports holidays, ski vacation and active vacations like biking and walking or hiking vacations.
You can rent a holiday house or chalet on family holiday parks or a romantic cottage on the country side, mansions, castles, group accommodation, with or without swimming pool or on a location near the beach.
www.vacations-a-la-carte.com /holiday-houses/belgium/west-flanders.html   (120 words)

  
 Expatica's Belgian news in English: Disaster plan revoked in West Flanders
However, downgrading the disaster plan from phase three does not mean all of the flooding problems in West Flanders have been resolved.
The crisis committee said the situation in Loppem and Brugge is under control as water levels decline due to run-off via the Ghent-Oostend canal and the combination Zuidervaartje-Leopold canal.
More than 4,000 calls for assistance were lodged with Belgian authorities when parts of Flanders received the largest amount of rainfall in seven years on Sunday night and throughout Monday.
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