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| County of Flanders Comté de Flandre (French) | |||||||||
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| 862–1791 | |||||||||
.svg) French Flanders in France (1789 borders) | |||||||||
| Capital | Lille | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Province | ||||||||
| King of West Francia / King of France | |||||||||
• 862–877 | Charles II | ||||||||
• 1774–1791 | Louis XVI | ||||||||
| Governor of Flanders and Hainaut | |||||||||
• 1694–1711 | Louis-François de Boufflers | ||||||||
• 1787–1791 | Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• County created | 862 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1791 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | France | ||||||||
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French Flanders (French: Flandre française [flɑ̃dʁ(ə) fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen; West Flemish: Frans-Vloandern) is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken. The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the northern border with Belgium. Together, with French Hainaut and Cambrésis, it makes up the French Department of Nord.
