EAST FLANDERS

Du. Oost-Vlaanderenōst-vlänˈdərən, Fr. Flandre Orientale, province (1991 pop. 1,335,793), 1,147 sq mi (2,971 sq km), NW Belgium, bordering on the Netherlands in the north. The chief towns are Ghent (the capital), Sint-Niklaas, Aalst, and Oudenaarde. The low-lying province is drained by the Scheldt, Dender, and Leie rivers. It has productive farms and growing industries. Manufactures include textiles, leather, steel, chemicals, and food processing. The population is mostly Dutch-speaking. For the history of East Flanders, see Flanders.

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books on: East Flanders  - 1761 results

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A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328
Book by William H. TeBrake; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Flanders--History, Flanders--Politics And Government, Flanders--Rural Conditions, Flanders--Social Conditions, Peasant Uprisings--Flanders, Peasantry--Flanders--History, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500
...eleventh century, the counts of Flanders extended their political authority...ease with which the counts of Flanders expanded the territory under...the Canche River and as far east as the Dender and lower Scheldt...Though technically the counts of Flanders were vassals of the West Frankish...
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About Catherine de Medici Christ in Flanders - Vol. 33
Book by Honore de Balzac; McKinlay, Stone and MacKenzie, 1915
Subjects: Balzac, Honore de--1799-1850--About Catharine De Medici. Christ in Flanders
...thee. Thou hast devoured millions of men without a cause; thou hast flung away lives like sand blown by the wind from west to east. Thou hast come down from the heights of thought to sit among the kings of men. Woman! instead of comforting men, thou hadst...
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Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 : Italy, France, and Flanders
Book by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.; Harvard University Press, 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, Revolutions--Europe--History, Social Change--Europe--History
...Flemish society from the Count of Flanders to disenfranchised workers...that would spread through West Flanders and as far east as Liege. Moreover, although...failed to oust the French from Flanders or rid the country mtircly of...
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In Flanders Fields: And Other Poems
Book by John McCrae, Andrew Macpbail; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1919
Subjects: English Poetry, Poetry
fighting to the south-east of us. Two attacks or threats, and we went in again. Saturday. May 8th. 1915. For the last three days we have been under...
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The Travels of Leo of Rozmital through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, 1465-1467
Book by Malcolm Letts; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1957
Subjects: Europe--Description And Travel--To 1600, Pilgrims And Pilgrimages--Europe
PUBLISHED BY THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London, N.W.I American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y. Printed in Great Britain by Robert MacLehose and Company Limited at the University Press Glasgow
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journal articles on: East Flanders  - 276 results

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Guardianship over Women in Medieval Flanders: A Reappraisal
Journal article by Ellen E. Kittell; Journal of Social History, Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Family--Social aspects, Flanders--History, Middle Ages--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects
...Guardianship over women in medieval Flanders: a reappraisal. by Ellen...examination of the phenomenon in Flanders to date. 24. This is not...situated in the south and east of Belgium. 25. Bruges...Countryside in Fourteenth-Century Flanders (Bruges, 1971). 28. See...
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The Far North and the Deep South: Contemporary Fiction in the Netherlands and Flanders
Journal article by Hugo Bousset, Steve Judd; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 14, 1994
Subjects: Dutch literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...to the German atrocities in the East Flanders village of Vinkt in May 1940...reality" between quotation marks. Flanders: Language Scrap and Language Music...of language-critical prose in Flanders. He worked on a master text in...
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Mutiny in the Balkans: Croat Volksdeutsche, the Waffen-SS and Motherhood *
Journal article by Anna M. Wittmann; East European Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Armed Forces--History, Armed Forces--Social aspects, Armed forces--History, Armed forces--Social aspects, Eastern Europe, Ethnic groups, Ethnology--History, Ethnology--Research, Germans, Germany, Germany. Schutzstaffel--Demographic aspects, Germany. Schutzstaffel--History, Germany. Schutzstaffel--Social aspects, Mutiny, Recruiting and enlistment--History, Recruiting and enlistment--Social aspects, Serbs
...those from Denmark, Norway, Flanders, the Netherlands and even officially...military performance of the East European Volksdeutsche has received...Third Reich: Ethnic Germans of East Central Europe between the Wars...Third Reich: Ethnic Germans of East Central Europe between the Wars...
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Serum Cadmium Levels in Pancreatic Cancer Patients from the East Nile Delta Region of Egypt
Journal article by Alison M. Kriegel, Amr S. Soliman, Qing Zhang, Nabih El-Ghawalby, Farouk Ezzat, Ahmed Soultan, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Omar Fathy, Gamal Ebidi, Nadia Bassiouni, Stanley R. Hamilton, James R. Abbruzzese, Michelle R. Lacey, Diane A. Blake; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: Risk factors (Health)
...populations. Key words: cadmium, East Nile Delta region, environmental...of the disease in the Middle East (Al-Bahrani et al. 1982...predisposition (Brand and Lynch 2000; Flanders and Foulkes 1996; Goggins et...of all the provinces in the East Nile Delta region. The population...
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Bedding the Nightmare: Somatic Experience and Narrative Meaning in Dutch and Flemish Legend Texts
Journal article by Willem De Blecourt; Folklore, Vol. 114, 2003
Subjects: Flanders--Folklore, legends, etc., Folk literature--Research, Folklore--Research, Nightmares--Folklore, legends, etc.
...province of West Flanders remarked of the nightmare...a hamlet in the east of the province of...1970, 137). In East Flanders, an informant repeatedly...said in a village east of the town of Groningen...west corner of Flanders: "It is a woman...
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magazine articles on: East Flanders  - 157 results

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Israeli Journalist Akiva Eldar Calls for System of Checks and Balances
Magazine article by Jane Adas; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 29, January 2010
Subjects: Civil rights movement, Democracy, Peace, Truces & cease fires
...of a just peace in the Middle East?" was Columbia Law Professor...was sponsored by the Middle East Institute and hosted by the...Columbia University. Laura Flanders of GRIT TV moderated the debate...Biblical roots of the Middle East problem, Fletcher said that...
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Proconsul to the Middle East Sir Percy Cox and the End of Empire
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 293, Spring 2011
Subjects: Colonial administrators--Biography, Cox, Percy--Biography, Diplomats--Biography
Proconsul to the Middle East Sir Percy Cox and the End of...Proconsul to the Middle East: Sir Percy Cox and the End...unmanageable horse in a bitter east wind. The English winter did...had been killed in action in Flanders in 1916. Their grandson was...
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Comment
Magazine article by Pat Lancaster; The Middle East, July 2008
Subjects: Anniversaries, First Battle of the Somme, 1916--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, First Battle of the Somme, 1916--Social aspects, France (World War I)--Social aspects, Great Britain (World War I)--Social aspects
...ceremonies will be held across the Flanders area of France and Belgium...rhetoric, a few days spent in the Flanders area, observing the conditions...the world and in the Middle East region in particular--Iraq...July, at ceremonies across Flanders the words of the poet Laurence...
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Alternative Media Voices
Magazine article by Pat Twair, Samir Twair; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XX, December 31, 2001
Subjects: Communications industry, Crime, Industry, Mass Media, Terrorism
...David Barsamian and Laura Flanders address the issue of "Terrorism...repercussions in the Middle East, India, Pakistan and the...many European nations." Flanders, host of Working Assets...David Barsamian and Laura Flanders)
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News from New York: Tri-state Activism
Magazine article by Jane Adas; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVIII, December 31, 1999
Subjects: Dance, Demonstrations & protests, Entertainment, Minority & ethnic groups, New York, Political dissent, Politics, Theater
...co-sponsored by Madre and Bna, the Progressive Middle East Alliance. The young dancers performed two beautiful pieces...experiences and hopes of Palestinian refugees. The emcee was Laura Flanders of Pacifica Radio. She pointed out that Americans have a responsibility...
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newspaper articles on: East Flanders  - 281 results

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The Flanders Family Has Its Heart in Moranbah
Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), November 26, 2011
...remains the same. Nia Flanders moved to the small mining...moving to Moranbah, Mrs Flanders, who continues to be a teacher at Moranbah East Primary School, met...and attended Moranbah East State School and Moranbah...friendly place,Cyen Mrs Flanders said. Cpounds sterlingI...
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Flanders Poppies Produce Fields of Red
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), November 15, 2008
Flanders Poppies Produce Fields of...McCrae wrote his famous poem In Flanders Fields, the red poppy already...narcotic in China and the Middle East and by 1905 more than a quarter...of blood red poppies. The Flanders or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas...
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The Lady Who Led the Mail into War; from Mafeking and the Mud of Flanders to Goose Green and the Arid Desert of Iraq, We Followed Britain's Bravest into Battle
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 6, 1996
...Lady Who Led the Mail into War; from Mafeking and the Mud of Flanders to Goose Green and the Arid Desert of Iraq, We Followed Britains...every time we stopped they insisted on kissing us. In the Far East, the atomic bomb brought the war to an end. At midnight on...
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Randolph 'Special' in Redhawks' Rout of Glenbard East
Newspaper article by By Nate Brown; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 10, 2011
Subjects: Football teams
...in Redhawks Rout of Glenbard East. by By Nate Brown Byline...Valley Conference foe Glenbard East 48-7 Friday night. Randolph...yard run by junior Malysha Flanders midway through the fourth quarter...Stine said about Glenbard East. "Our defense works extremely...
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East End Colour and City Cool Come Together in These Streets Spotlight on Bethnal Green
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 6, 2011
...Road conservation area, to the east of Cambridge Heath Road, there...Gardens in Parmiter Street, east of Cambridge Heath Road and...cakes, Cafe Columbia for that East End speciality -- filled bagels...good for gifts, while Angela Flanders is one of the capitals best...
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encyclopedia articles on: East Flanders  - 18 results

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East Flanders
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EAST FLANDERS Du. Oost-Vlaanderen ost-vlan d r n, Fr. Flandre Orientale, province...processing. The population is mostly Dutch-speaking. For the history of East Flanders, see Flanders . ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Flanders
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Scheldt (Escaut) River. It is divided among East Flanders and West Flanders provs., Belgium; Nord...gained (1830) independence, its part of Flanders was divided into the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders. Flanderss strategic...
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Belgium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Historically, the country comprises two ethnic and cultural regions, generally called Flanders and Wallonia Flanders embracing the northern provinces of East Flanders , West Flanders , Antwerp , Limburg , and part of Brabant , and Wallonia comprising...
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Ghent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pop. 230,246), capital of East Flanders prov., W Belgium, at the confluence...begun 867) of the counts of Flanders, the Cathedral of St. Bavon...and the historic capital of Flanders , Ghent developed around a fortress...
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Aalst
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...AALST alst, Fr. Alost, city (1991 pop. 76,382), East Flanders prov., W central Belgium. Aalst is a commercial and...from 1667 to 1706 and was the capital of the county of Flanders under the Austrians in the 18th cent. Of note are the...
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