Flanders (disambiguation)
Flanders ( Dutch Vlaanderen ) stands for the following political units:
Today's units:
- Flanders region in Belgium
- West Flanders and East Flanders , two of the five provinces in this region
- Flemish Community in Belgium where Dutch is spoken
Historical Territories:
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County of Flanders , historical territory on the territory of today's Belgium, France and the Netherlands
- French Flanders , part of the old county of Flanders in what is now France
- Zeeuws Vlaanderen , part of the old county of Flanders in what is now the Dutch province of Zeeland
- Reichsgau Flanders (1944/1945)
Flanders is part of the name of the following people:
- Adela of Flanders (~ 1064–1115), Queen of Denmark, later Duchess of Apulia and Calabria
- Eustach of Flanders († 1216), regent of the Kingdom of Thessaloniki
- John of Flanders († 1292), Bishop of Metz and Liège
- Joan of Flanders (1295–1374), Duchess of Brittany
- Judith von Flandern (~ 1030–1094), Countess of Northumbria and Duchess of Bavaria
- Mathilde von Flanders (~ 1032–1083), wife of William the Conqueror, Duchess of Normandy
- Peter of Flanders († 1176), Bishop of Cambrai
See also:
Wiktionary: Flanders - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
