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Exploring Flanders: A World War I and Cultural Overview

This quiz explores significant historical events and cultural aspects of Flanders and Belgium, focusing on the impacts of World War I and the diverse linguistic landscape.

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1 Flanders (and Belgium as a whole) saw some of the greatest loss of life on the Western Front of the First World War, in particular from the three battles of ________.

2 There are also sizable minorities speaking French, Berber, Turkish, ________, Spanish, Italian and Polish.

3 This covers the north of Belgium Flemish Region and includes the ________, the latter being shared with French speakers.

4 French enjoys a limited official recognition in a dozen municipalities along the borders with French-speaking ________, and a large recognition in the bilingual Brussels Region.

5 The southern ________ mainly was Roman Catholic, in contrast to the mainly Protestant north; large parts of the southern bourgeoisie also primarily spoke French rather than Dutch.

6 Flanders was one of the first continental European areas to undergo the ________, in the 19th century.

7 The city of Lille manifests itself as "Flemish", for instance by the large ________ station Lille-Flandres.

8 The Dutch (as they later became known) had managed to reclaim enough of Spanish-controlled Flanders to close off the river ________, effectively cutting Antwerp off from its trade routes.

9 This changed upon the Count of Rouen's settlement with the King of France, which made a cession of western Flanders and eastern Armorica to the ________.

10 He inherited the Seventeen Provinces (1506), Spain (1516) with its colonies and in 1519 was elected ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books.
  • the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders, Belgium, having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary".
  • the sarcophagus of King Gustav I of Sweden and his consorts at Uppsala Cathedral (pictured) had once been confiscated by authorities in Antwerp because the Flemish sculptor Willem Boy was in debt.
  • only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived.
  • Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem.
  • Sir Edwin Lutyens included a landscaped circular depression in his design for the Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (pictured) in Flanders, to evoke the mine craters that once surrounded it.
  • Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I (pictured).
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