Flanders

[ flan-derz ]

noun

1. a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River: the corresponding modern regions include the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in W Belgium, and the adjacent parts of N France and SW Netherlands.

Flanders

/ ˈflɑːndəz /

noun

1. a powerful medieval principality in the SW part of the Low Countries, now in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders, the Netherlands province of Zeeland, and the French department of the Nord; scene of battles in many wars

Example Sentences

In 1915, Canadian doctor Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his famous war poem, In Flanders Fields, following the devastation he witnessed on battlefields in Ypres, Belgium.

From BBC

Count Philip of Flanders would often arrive at the lists with his retinue and publicly declare his intention to spectate rather than fight.

From Salon

Belgium is split along linguistic lines, with francophone Wallonia in the south and Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, and governments are invariably formed by coalitions made of parties from both regions.

From Seattle Times

It wants the independence of Flanders and therefore the end of Belgium.

From BBC

John McCrae’s World War I poem “In Flanders Fields,” symbolizes the sacrifices made by countless men and women in uniform.

From Seattle Times