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Singular Flanders

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Flanders

  1. 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.
  2. The historical Countship of Flanders, of varying extent.
    • 1613 — Shakespeare, Hen VIII iii 2
      When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
  3. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
  4. Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
  5. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.

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