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Within Vinony's link graph, French Flanders is referenced by 295 other articles, and connects out to Flanders, Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picard.
Vinony files it under County of Flanders, Former provinces of France and French Flanders.
Its subject is documented across 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Capital
- Lille
- Type
- Province
- 862 877
- Charles II
- 1774 1791
- Louis XVI
- 1694 1711
- Louis-François de Boufflers
- 1787 1791
- Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- French Flanders
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1791-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofFrance
French Flanders is a historical and cultural region of France. It was historically part of the historical County of Flanders, now Flanders in Belgium where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken along with Roman Flemish, typically referred to as a French dialect (also called Ch’ti or, most commonly, Picard). The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the northern border with Belgium. Together, with French Hainaut and Cambrésis, it makes up the French Department of Nord.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Flanders” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.