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Flanders vs Dutchland - What's the difference?

flanders | dutchland |

As proper nouns the difference between flanders and dutchland

is that flanders is (historical) the , of varying extent while dutchland is (dated) the region of continental europe populated by speakers of low, middle and high west germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the netherlands, flanders, germany, austria, and parts of switzerland.

flanders

English

(Flanders)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (historical) The , of varying extent.
  • * 1613 — Shakespeare, Hen VIII iii 2
    • When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
  • A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.
  • Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).
  • Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.
  • The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.

    • Related terms

    * East-Flanders * Flandrian * Flemish * French Flanders * Imperial Flanders * West-Flanders * Zeelandic Flanders

    See also

    * Belgium * Brussels * Wallonia

    Anagrams

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    dutchland

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (dated) The region of Continental Europe populated by speakers of Low, Middle and High West Germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.
  • *1902 , John Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America :
    • The dwellers in those mountain regions, along with the greater part of the lowland population, we call by a Latin name "Germans," as if we had first learned about them by reading Cæsar's commentaries. One can see how the popular name "Dutchland " would naturally remain associated especially with that bit of shore with which our forefathers had most to do.
  • (obsolete) Germany.
  • * 1688', George Etherege, in a letter (written from ) to Middleton, printed in '''1982 in ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, and Other Stage Personnel in London , volume 8, page 170:
  • * 1838 , , The Anatomy of Melancholy'', sixteenth edition (printed from the authorized copy of 1651), ''Democritus Junior to the Reader , page 51:
    • I observe, in Turinge in Dutchland ,
  • *1886 , in The Education Outlook :
    • Before a few weeks ago I always held England for the greateste land of the whole world after Dutchland , and the Englanders for the best-lighted folk.
  • Holland; The Netherlands (the region inhabited by the Dutch).
  • * 1822-26 , Ebenezer Sibly, An Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology , part 3, page 995:
    • Isle of Ameyland, Dutchland German ocean - 7 30
    Amsterdam, ditto, - Ditto - 3 00
  • *1905 , in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London :
    • Marie Stope, the wiff of the said Arnold, borne in Dutchland , .... age of 1 yeares.
  • *1913 , Hugh Johnston, Travel films: being pen pictures of Europe :
    • The finest gallery of pictures in Dutchland is the Mesdag Museum, containing the art collections of the painter H. W. Mesdag.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    See also

    * Germanland