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Definition of Flanders

1. Noun. A medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands.

Definition of Flanders

1. Proper noun. (historical) The w:Flanders (county) Countship of Flanders, of varying extent. ¹

2. Proper noun. 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. ¹

3. Proper noun. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders). ¹

4. Proper noun. Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord. ¹

5. Proper noun. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Flanders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"flanders in Advance of Italy at the Beginning of the 15/A Century.—Early Flemish Artists.—Claux Sluter and his Works at Dijon.— The Brothers Limbourg. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The firm removed the suit into the Circuit Court of the United States, and filed their answer averring that they received the cotton by order of flanders, ..."

3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"In this dangerous condition of things Requesens died in flanders (March, 1576). The Catholic Flemings had continued to press for the withdrawal of the ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"In this dangerous condition of things Requesens died in flanders (March, 1576). The Catholic Flemings had continued to press for the withdrawal of the ..."

5. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"21st, flanders; 22nd, France; 23rd, The Earl of Huntingdon, Mr. Bowes; 24th, Ireland; 28th, ... Letters sent to—2nd, The Earl of Huntingdon, flanders; 6th, ..."

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