Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord
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
When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
{i} region in northwestern Europe (includes parts of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands)
a flat area consisting of what is now part of Belgium, the Netherlands, and northern France. Important battles were fought here in the First World War. Flemish Vlaanderen Medieval principality extending along the coast of the Low Countries. Its lands are now included in the French département of Nord, the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders, and the Dutch province of Zeeland. Ruled by Baldwin I in 862, Flanders began to grow as a commercial centre, fostered by its strategic location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Scandinavian and Baltic countries. It passed to Burgundy in 1384 and then to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1477. It remained part of the Netherlands under Spanish rule in the 17th century. It was the scene of fighting during both World War I and World War II. Limited autonomy was granted to Belgian Flanders in the 1980s, and it became one of the three regions in the new federation of Belgium in 1993
The (smaller) part of the countship of Flanders, east of the Scheldt (Escaut), for which the count didn't pay homage as vassal of the French king but to the Holy Roman Emperor
Imperial Flanders included the early-medieval countship of Aalst (Alost).
The larger western part of the historic countship of Flanders, also comprising part of French Flanders (in northern France) and retaining a distinctive type of dialects
Moll Flanders. the main character in the book The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, written in 1722 by Daniel Defoe. Moll tells the story of her marriages, sexual relationships, and crimes in an amusing way that makes the reader feel sympathy for her