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  2. Flemish people - Wikipedia

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    Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [28] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".

  3. History of Portugal (1415–1578) - Wikipedia

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    John I of Portugal acceded in 1390 and ruled in peace, pursuing the economic development of his realm. The only significant military action was the siege and conquest of the city of Ceuta in 1415. By this step he aimed to control navigation of the African coast. But in the broader perspective, this was the first step opening the Arab world to ...

  4. Renaissance in the Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Renaissance in the Low Countries was a cultural period in the Northern Renaissance that took place in around the 16th century in the Low Countries (corresponding to modern-day Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders). Culture in the Low Countries at the end of the 15th century was influenced by the Italian Renaissance, through ...

  5. History of Lille - Wikipedia

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    During this war, the French king Philippe Auguste defeated the Count of Flanders and the German Emperor Otto IV, ending with the French victory at Bouvines in 1214. Count Ferrand de Portugal was imprisoned and the county fell into disarray, with his wife Jeanne, Countess of Flanders and Constantinople, ruling the city. The countess was said to ...

  6. French Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European [1] Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe. Notable developments during the French Renaissance ...

  7. Portuguese Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...

  8. Portuguese people - Wikipedia

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    About 782,000 foreigners live legally in the country (7%), thus approximately 9.685 million people living in Portugal hold Portuguese citizenship or legal residency. [187] The median age stood at 46.8 years (versus 44.4 in the EU as a whole) as of 2023. [188] People aged 65 or more accounted for 23%. [189]

  9. French Flanders - Wikipedia

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    French Flanders. French Flanders (French: Flandre française [flɑ̃dʁ (ə) fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen; West Flemish: Frans-Vloandern) is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish —a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch —was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken. The region lies in the modern ...