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unusual facts about West Flanders


Westvleteren Abbey

Sixtus' Abbey, Westvleteren, which belongs to the Cistercians of Strict Observance, or Trappists, is located in Westvleteren, West Flanders, in Belgium.


Château de Rambures

Adrien ( - 1405), son of the preceding, captain of Boulogne and Gravelines, Governor of West Flanders; he married Jeanne de Bernuy; he died with his father at the Château de Mercq.

Une voix dans le désert

In August 1915 Belgium had been invaded by the German army: the big cities had been destroyed, the carnage on both sides was incalculable and King Albert and his army were driven to the banks of the river Yser in West Flanders.


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Belgian federal election, 2014

Voters who live in the provinces of Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Limburg or West Flanders can only vote for CD&V, Groen, N-VA, Open Vld and Vlaams Belang, apart from the minor parties – except when a French-speaking party would present a list in one of these provinces, which has not happened yet.

Furnes

The French exonym for Veurne, previously used in English, a city in West Flanders, Belgium

G. J. Renier

Both his grandfathers were from Ostend, West Flanders, his grandmothers were locals from Flushing and Middelburg.

Harold Stackard

On 3 September 1917, he destroyed an Albatros D.III southeast of Pervijze, West Flanders.

KSVR

K.S.V. Roeselare, a Belgian football club, from the city of Roeselare in West Flanders