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The County of Flanders was created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the predecessor of the Kingdom of France.After a period of growing power within France, it was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century, with the remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of neighbouring Hainaut in 1191.
The County of Flanders [b] was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of modern-day Belgium and north-eastern France. Unlike the neighbouring states of Brabant and Hainaut , it was within the territory of the Kingdom of France .
1584 map of the county of Flanders. ... the official capital of Flanders is the City of ... corresponded roughly with the medieval counties of Flanders, ...
Just below the gardens is the Porte du Château of 1621, the last substantial part of the old castle to remain standing. The city walls no longer stand but footpaths and streets still trace their former course. [23] The Kasteel Meulen ("Castle Windmill") is a post mill situated on the highest point of Mont Cassel on the site of the former ...
The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, in recognition of the civic (rather than church) belfries serving as an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence from feudal and religious influences in the former County of Flanders (present-day French Flanders area of France and Flanders region of Belgium ...
The linguistic descendants of the Franks, the modern Dutch-speakers of the Netherlands and Flanders, seem to have broken with the endonym "Frank" around the 9th century. By this time Frankish identity had changed from an ethnic identity to a national identity, becoming localized and confined to the modern Franconia and principally to the French ...
Bruges as a medieval commercial metropolis; The depiction of the region on the maps of Muhammad al-Idrisi; Beguinages; Medieval vernacular literature, exemplified by the stories of Reynard the Fox; Social revolutions in the cities of Flanders and Brabant, exemplified by the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302)
Map of the interlocking river systems and commercial cities in the Southern Netherlands all leading to the entrepot of Antwerp. In the early stages of the Dutch revolt, Antwerp was considered to be the capital of the revolt; and the Dutch rebel army furiously but unsuccessfully sought to raise the siege of the city by the royal Army of Flanders.