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What does Flanders mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) The County of Flanders, of varying extent.
  2. 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.
  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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Stefan made me realise for the first time what witty and professional writers Flanders and Swann were.
In 1914 he volunteered for military service and served as a medical orderly in Flanders.
Inland, most of the rivers run across the flat, fertile Flanders Plain, north-eastward to The Netherlands.
Flanders in Belgium had been all but destroyed with the ancient city of Ypres being devastated.
The day's two earlier races had made these boggy Flanders fields even more of a quagmire by the time of the main event.
The language spoken in Flanders is Dutch, which is commonly called Flemish.

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