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17. "Belgium". International Religious Freedom Report 2004. US Department of State,
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2004). Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
18. Inquiry by 'Vepec', 'Vereniging voor Promotie en Communicatie' (Organisation for
Promotion and Communication), published in Knack magazine 22 November 2006
p. 14 [The Dutch language term 'gelovig' is in the text translated as 'religious', more
precisely it is a very common word for believing in particular in any kind of God in a
monotheistic sense, and/or in some afterlife].
RESULTS FROM FACTBITES:
Flanders - LoveToKnow 1911 (3125 words)
East Flanders lies east and north-east of the western province, and extends
northwards to the neighbourhood of Antwerp.
On the break-up of the Carolingian empire the river Scheldt was by the treaty of
Verdun (843) made the line of division between the kingdom of East Francia
(Austrasia) under the emperor Lothaire, and the kingdom of West Francia (Neustria)
under Charles the Bald.
In his time the long contest between Flanders and Holland for the possession of the
island of Zeeland was brought to an end by a treaty signed on the 6th of March 1323,
by which West Zeeland was assigned to the count of Holland, the rest to the count of
Flanders.
Flanders. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07 (1034 words)
Flanders is divided among East Flanders and West Flanders provs., Belgium; Nord
and Pas-de-Calais depts., France; and (to a small extent) Zeeland prov., the
Netherlands.
Their prosperity and the prosperity of Flanders as a whole depended on the growing
cloth industry, which had been introduced in the 10th cent., and on the transit trade at
such major ports as Bruges (later superseded by Antwerp) and Ghent.
Flanders joined (1576) in the revolt of the Netherlands against Philip II of Spain, but by
1584 the Spanish under Alessandro Farnese had recovered the county.
SOURCE: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Flanders

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