Flanders (bel)

Flanders

Flanders ranks 3,988th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Troy, New York, Oceanside, California, and Harvey, Illinois. Memorable people born in Flanders include Gerard de Ridefort, Heinrich Isaac, and Rimbert. Memorable people who died in Flanders include Chrétien de Troyes, and William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford. Flanders has been the birth place of many politicians, and composers and the death place of many writers, and military personnels. Flanders is located in Belgium.

Flanders is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and sometimes involving neighbouring countries. The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish, which can also refer to the collective of Dutch dialects spoken in that area, or more generally the Belgian variant of Standard Dutch. Read more on Wikipedia