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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".
When Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz was appointed by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor to rule the then-new Principality of Reuss-Greiz on 12 May 1778, the flag adopted by the Fürstentum Reuß-Greiz was the first-ever appearance of the black-red-gold tricolour in its modern arrangement in any sovereign state within what today comprises Germany ...
National Committee for a Free Germany: Also used the Flag of Germany (1867–1918) without the heading 1930–1933: Black Front: 1920–1924: Union of Upper Silesians: 1920–1945: National Socialist German Workers' Party: 1919–1946: Communist Party of Germany (obverse and reverse) 1918–1933: German National People's Party: Flag of Germany ...
The flag of Flanders, sometimes called the Vlaamse Leeuw ("Flemish Lion") or leeuwenvlag ("Lion flag"), is the flag of the Flemish Community and Flemish Region in Belgium.The flag was officially adopted by the Cultural Council for the Dutch Cultural Community (Cultuurraad voor de Nederlandse Cultuurgemeenschap) in 1973, and later, in 1985, by its successor, the Flemish Parliament.
A Germanic etymology for Flanders and Flemish (Dutch: Vlaanderen, Vlaams) was proposed by Maurits Gysseling in 1948, [2] based upon an article by René Verdeyen in 1943. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to this proposal, the terms Flanders and Flemish are likely derived from words derived from Proto-Germanic * flaumaz , meaning stream, current, flood or eddy.
Flemish strijdvlag as adopted by large parts of the Flemish Movement. The Flemish Movement or (Flemish nationalism) (Dutch: Vlaamse Beweging, pronounced [ˈvlaːmsə bəˈʋeːɣɪŋ]) is an umbrella term which encompasses various political groups in the Belgian region of Flanders and, less commonly, in French Flanders.
It was a sea of symbolism that day from American flags to Nazi imagery, Confederate flags, the Gadsden flag. Laura Scofield is a vexillologist, a fancy term for someone who studies flags.
The Flemish Region (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest, pronounced [ˌvlaːms xəˈʋɛst] ⓘ), [a] [b] usually simply referred to as Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə(n)] ⓘ), [c] is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. [5]