Vosselare
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Vosselare is a village and submunicipality of the municipality of Deinze, Belgium in the province of East-Flanders, Belgium.
==History== The parish is first mentioned in 694 as Fursitio in the yearbook of the St-Peter Abbey of Ghent, and again in 802. Later on it is referred to as 'Voslariensis ecclesiae' (1087), Vurslar (1122), Vorselar (1125), Furselare (1130), Vurselaer (1140), Vorselaer (1147), Vursselare (1230, 1320, 1579), Vorslaer (1330), Vurselare (1364, 1500) and Vosselare for the first time in 1650. The name ‘Vosselaere’ is also used.
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