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...over Flanders' beaches to flood the low-lying flatlands behind. From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee. Their land was Vlandria, land of the refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FLANDERS | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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