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    The Flanders Gate (French: Porte de Flandre; Dutch: Vlaamsepoort) was one of the medieval city gates of the second walls of Brussels, Belgium. Belgium...
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    the lion of Britain but also the lion of Flanders. It was chosen to be a memorial as it was the closest gate of the town to the fighting, and so Allied...
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    The India Gate (formerly known as All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located near the Rajpath (officially called Kartavya path) on the eastern edge...
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    and Roodenbeke. The Sweerts House was charged with the defence of the Flanders Gate, seconded as of 1422 by the nation of Saint-Gilles. Party per pale pily...
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    Prinsenhof, Ghent (category County of Flanders)
    historic building in Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium which served as the official residence of the Counts of Flanders from the 15th century after the Gravensteen...
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    Ypres (category Municipalities of West Flanders)
    Bethune, nicknamed "The Lion of Flanders", who was Count of Nevers (1273–1322) and Count of Flanders (1305–1322). The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing commemorates...
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  • Flanders (circa 843 – 870 or later) was a Carolingian princess who became Queen of Wessex by two successive marriages and later Countess of Flanders....
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    Gate The Jesuit Church The Church of Our Lady of the Chapel The Church of St. Gaugericus The Anderlecht Gate The Lesser Sluice Gate The Flanders Gate...
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    les dates  [fr] of 1750. Henry's reported response, likening Anne to a "Flanders mare", has no contemporary source but originates from a "misogynist" coining...
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    surrounding battlefields, and the Menin Gate. The museum presents a general introduction to World War I in Flanders with reference to other Allied museums...
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    for his cause as they opened their gates to him. The new Count of Flanders, Louis de Nevers, arrived in Flanders in January 1324 but had no army to contain...
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    Gravensteen (category Castles in East Flanders)
    the city of Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium. The current castle dates from 1180 and was the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353. It was subsequently...
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    offensive operations in Flanders were not possible in 1915, due to a lack of resources. The Germans conducted their own Flanders offensive at the Second...
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    Books. Flanders 1961, p. 64 Flanders 1961, p. 66 Flanders 1961, pp. 37, 47, 64–65 Flanders 1909a Flanders 1909b Flanders 1909c Flanders 1909d Flanders 1909e...
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    Saint-Jean. Halle Gate was defended by the House of Serhuyghs, from 1422 together with the Nation of Saint-Laurent. Flanders Gate was defended by the...
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    seven gates: Laeken, Flanders, Anderlecht, Halle, Namur, Leuven and Schaerbeek, each named for the direction of the road leading out of the gate. An eighth...
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    Vucht. 1488 18 September: Philip of Cleves enters the city through the Flanders Gate at the head of a French-Flemish army. 20 September: The city proclaims...
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    of Flanders during 1244–1278 and Countess of Hainaut during 1244–1253 and 1257–1280. She was the younger daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and...
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    Spanish in the previous century. Two entrenchments in front of Flanders Gate and Anderlecht Gate were easily taken by the French, who then installed their...
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    village of Flanders, originally a farming area along the Old Post Road, gets its name from the development of woolen mills similar to that in Flanders, Belgium...
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    Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 (at the age of six) until her death. She was the elder daughter of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut...
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    Flemish people (category Flanders)
    captain who brought settlers from Flanders to the Azores. Today many Azoreans trace their genealogy from present day Flanders. Many of their customs and traditions...
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  • games. It is best known for developing the Divinity series and Baldur's Gate 3. Larian has studios in 6 other countries around the world: Quebec City...
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    bells during the war. Most of the war memorials in Flanders can be found in the Province of West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), which comprises the arrondissements...
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    Ghent (category Municipalities of East Flanders)
    in East Flanders, Ghent has four large hospitals, numerous schools, and shopping streets. Flanders Expo, the biggest event hall in Flanders and the second...
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    Brussels–Charleroi Canal (category Canals in Flanders)
    completed in 1857. Ambitious enlargements began again with the lock at the Flanders Gate in Brussels, which was expanded to a gauge of 600–800 tonnes (1,300...
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  • Winter's Gate is the seventh studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium. It was released worldwide on September 23, 2016 via Century Media...
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    a city and municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town...
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  • The Battle at Garden's Gate is the second studio album by American rock band Greta Van Fleet, released on April 16, 2021. The album's first single, "My...
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  • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 4 August 1967 by EMI Columbia. It is the only Pink...
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