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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".
Flemish surnames are also common, due to Flemish economic immigration from 1850 to 1950. See Flanders name . There are also a lot of typical Walloon surnames, like Monami (fr: Mon ami , en: My friend ), Dehasse (fr: de Hasselt , en: from Hasselt ), Delcroix (fr: de la Croix , en: from the Cross ), Delhaize or Donnay (some famous tennis ...
In some names, usually those of the Flemish/Belgian ones, and also some of the names of people from outside the Low Countries (with Dutch-speaking immigrant ancestors), the prefixes are concatenated to each other or to the name proper and form a single-worded or two-worded surnames, [2] as in Vandervelde or Vande Velde.
Katherine Elizabeth Fleming, professor of history and administrator at New York University; Klas Fleming (disambiguation) (or Klas, Class, Claes or Klaus), numerous people; Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), British economist; Mary Fleming (f. 1550s), lady-in-waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots
[39] The Dutch fortresses were liberated in Ath ( 27 September), Mons (29 September), Tournai (2 October), Namur (4 October) (with the help of people coming from Andenne, Fosses, Gembloux), Charleroi (5 October) (with people who came in their thousands).The same day that was also the case for Philippeville, Mariembourg, Dinant, Bouillon. [40]
Wilhelm van der Bruyn was the first Flemish migrant to the Azores, where he became known as Guilherme de Brum and met, had relationships and had descendants with other Flemish migrants, mainly Lodewijk Govaert (Luis Goulart), Jesse van der Aertrijke (José Terra), Joost de Hurtere (José Silveira), forming the municipality of Horta called Flamengos.
Flemish may refer to: Flemish, adjective for Flanders, Belgium; Flemish region, one of the three regions of Belgium; Flemish Community, one of the three constitutionally defined language communities of Belgium; Flemish dialects, a Dutch dialect cluster spoken in Flanders; Flemish people or Flemings, inhabitants of Flanders
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