Flanders (disambiguation)
Look up Flanders in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Flanders is the country of the Flemings; since several decades ago, it is also a community and a region in Belgium. Geographically and historically, Flanders also covers parts of France and the Netherlands but may also refer to:
Places
[edit]Americas
[edit]- Flanders, Louisiana, USA
- Flanders, Michigan, USA
- Flanders, New Jersey, USA
- Flanders, New York, USA
- Flanders, a village in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut, USA
- Flanders, a village in Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
- Indian Flanders (Flandes Indiano), an old name for Chile given during the Arauco War
Europe
[edit]- Flanders, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- County of Flanders, a historical county of the Low Countries, which included part of the north of modern-day France and the extreme south-west of the modern Netherlands
- East Flanders, a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of modern-day Belgium
- Flanders Fields, the battlefields of World War I in northern France and north-western Belgium
- Flemish Community, one of the three Communities of Belgium, called Flanders
- Flemish Region, one of the three Regions of Belgium, called Flanders
- French Flanders, the northern département of Nord and part of the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- West Flanders, the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, also named Flanders, in modern-day Belgium
- Zeelandic Flanders in The Netherlands
People
[edit]- Raúl Hernández Barrón, Mexican suspected drug lord, nicknamed "Flanders 1"
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Literature
[edit]- "In Flanders Fields", a 1915 World War I poem by Lt-Col John McCrae
- In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign, a book by historian Leon Wolff
- Moll Flanders, a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Flanders (band), a.k.a. Deflect, an Italian electronic/dance group
- Flanders (film), by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont
- Flandre Scarlet, a vampire from the Touhou Project game series
- Ned Flanders, a character from The Simpsons franchise
Other uses
[edit]- Flanders Automobile Company, a US-American automobile manufacturer that operated in Detroit from 1910 to 1913
- Flanders (horse), an American racehorse
- Flanders, a common fig cultivar
- MS Flanders, a ferry in service under this name in 2002
See also
[edit]
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flanders.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.