- Romance Flanders
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Name
In early modern English, it was also called "Welch Flanders" or "Gallike Flanders". The original French name is "Flandre Gallicane" or "Flandre Gallicante", derived from the Latin term : "Gallo Flandria" or "Flandria Gallica".
The term "
Walloon Flanders " should not be used to designate the entire region, as it refers only to a part of Gallicant Flanders. It was used to refer to the part of Romance Flanders that adhered to theUnion of Arras in1579 and was annexed to France after theTreaties of Nijmegen (in both cases,Mouscron , for instance, was not a part of Walloon Flanders). The use of "Walloon Flanders" is political, not linguistic as Romance Flanders or Gallicant Flanders.Territory
In
France :
** TheLilloise Flanders (in French "Flandre Lilloise", in Dutch "Rijsels-Vlaanderen") ;
** The northern part of the Scarpe plain with thePévèle and the bailiwick ofDouai ("Douaisis");In
Belgium :
** The historicalTournaisis (in Dutch "Doornikse");
** The regions ofMouscron and Comines, bilingual communes of (or part of) the old castelleny ofCourtray ;ee also
*
Walloon Flanders
*Maritime Flanders
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