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- proper noun The westernmost
province ofBelgium andFlanders , with capitalBruges . - proper noun The larger western part of the historic
countship of Flanders, also comprising part of French Flanders (in northernFrance ) and retaining a distinctive type of dialects
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Examples
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Team RadioShack on Thursday announced its teams for the Three Days of West Flanders (March 4-6) and Paris-Nice (March 6-13).
Quick Step announces Paris-Nice and Three Days of West Flanders squads 2011
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Out-of-suspension Alberto Contador gave Saxo Bank-SunGaard its first wins of the season at the Tour of Murcia, and New Zealand rookie Jesse Sergent added two wins to the RadioShack account by taking the overall at the Three Days of West Flanders after blasting the prologue TT.
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Courses with panache modify the radio debate 2011
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John Degenkolb HTC-Highroad sprinted to victory in the first stage of the Three Days of West Flanders on Saturday.
John Degenkolb takes stage 1 at 2011 Three Days of West Flanders 2011
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Mr. Claerbout, born in West Flanders and now based in Antwerp and Berlin, was trained as a painter, but he has made his name with a number of astonishing video installations and photographic projections, which seem to combine, or perhaps transcend, a whole range of media.
Still Images Turn Into a Moving Experience J. S. Marcus 2011
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Team RadioShack on Wednesday announced its teams for the Three Days of West Flanders (March 4-6) and Paris-Nice (March 6-13)
RadioShack announces West Flanders and Paris-Nice teams 2011
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Somebody, somewhere in the small town of Ledegen in West Flanders did not like that and was prepared to take extreme action unless Rik sacked Naima Amzil.
THE NEWS BLOG 2005
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Bruges, the capital of West Flanders, contains many fine monuments of the
Early European History Hutton Webster
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West Flanders has lost something of its old somnolence and peace.
Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris
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Much hard fighting on the Yser and elsewhere in West Flanders has fallen to the lot of the French bluejackets of the Naval Brigade, a strong force of whom were brought up from Brest to reinforce the Belgians in their defensive battles near the coast after the retreat from Antwerp.
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[30] In 1831 A.D. the two provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders became part of the modern kingdom of Belgium.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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