One of our football tems here in Argentina was founded for a Flemish Belgian and it is called as 'Flandria'. It competes in second division by the moment I'm writting this
Are you scottish perhaps? Quite a few flemings migrated to Scotland during the middle ages and the surname "fleming" is just one of the many remnants of that
Fun facts: The Flemish are direct descendants of the Franks, who created the Frankish Empire. 1/3 of Wiliam the Conquerer's army was Flemish. 1/3 of Scottish people have partial Flemish roots due to Flemish migration to the region during the Middle Ages. 'Flanders' literally means 'flooded'. A refference to the fact that during the Middle Ages, the coast of West Flanders regularly flooded. The Flemish played an important role during the Crusades. One of the most important leaders of the First Crusade was the Flemish count Robert II. The first emperors of the Latin Empire were also Flemish. During the Middle Ages, Flanders was one of the richest places in Europe. The surname 'Fleming' comes from Flanders. It was introduced to the British Isles by Flemish settlers during the Middle Ages.
@@helioslegigantosaure6939 the franks were germans that lived in an area corresponding to today's belgium, south netherlands and the rhineland in germany
Come out ye Black and Tans, Come out and fight me like a Man! Show your wife how you won medals in Flanders, Tell her that the IRA, made ya run the hell away, from the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra!
i got that reference, i don't know what exactly the refere to though, during ww1 brittish soldiers did commit some atrocities, one great aunt of mine was raped and murdered by one, and they often shot livestock for fun but during ww2 much more discipline was seemingly instilled, even among the Germans as well, so idk
Why he is this hard? I can understand french if you want to speak this langage. Is the anthem of the wallon ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X4cjOXu4AV8.html
It’s great that you call yourself that. You are Belgian French, calling yourselves Walloons are idiotic at best. None of you can actually speak, write, live or express culture in the Picard/Walloon dialect anymore. You are fake constructions like white South Africans of British descent.
@@ComradeHistorian Well, we celibrate one of those as the national holiday, 11th of july, the battle of the golden spurs. We won the battle but lost the war, it did however end the threat of french annnexation for years to come.
Ik ben van Rijsel en ik ben Vlaming EN Frans, mijn grootvader was van Vlaanderen en mijn grootmoeder was van Frankrijk, ik ben Vlaming-Frans, als Rijsel en als Brussel is Vlaming-Waals
Well the flemish revolt was more something done by the flemish minor nobility and burgers, peasants mostly kept to their fields honestly or they answered the call to arms as part of their feudal obligation.
It's funny, because the surname 'Fleming' actually comes from Flanders. It was introduced to the British Isles by Flemish settlers during the Middle Ages.
Als je een echte nationalist was, zou je ervan dromen om je te verenigen met ons volk in het noorden, het volk dat sinds 1581 van ons gescheiden is. verenigen @@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809
@notawarcriminal negeer deze idioot. Ik ben vlaams en ik droom ervan me te verenigen met onze broeders in het noorden. Eén grote Germaanse Nederlandse familie
Small correction: “zolang een Vlaming leeft” means more “as long as a Fleming lives” due to how een is pronounced as it can mean either “a” or “one” but is pronounced the former way here
Yes you're correct, most of the time een can mean a and one and it's differentiated by the context, but in formal speech or by many people, one is één and a is een, but not everyone uses diacritics, in offical texts it's always like that though
Im kinda sad that walloon dont speak walloon anymore. We do have a anthem for the walloon(le chant du wallon ) . Is sad we speak just french and dont walloon or brusselers. I like the flamish part of belgium is great. And a part of my famally live here.
True, the "frenchification" done by belgian elites fucked traditional walloon culture much more than it could ever fuck with the flemish. It basically destroyed the traditional language of the south
the Walloon aren’t a people it never even was a nation but it is a language un namurois et un Luxembourgeois ne sont pas wallon de même pour les Brabancon et liégeois et gens de hainaut ils sont par contre tous des Belges de même pour les flamands Brabançon et limbourgeois
@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 Cool, thanks. That reminds me of a common apple in Norway called gravensten, apparently it’s named after a Danish castle called Gråstein, which in German is «Gravenstein». So I guess Gravensteen means Greystone? I might otherwise guess «Count», as in German graf or Norwegian greve. Not that it really matters, lol. This made me look up and read about apples and castles anyway.
As a flemish person, i really like the song ngl, but i still want to see belgium unite, instead of being at the edge on falling apart like it is sometimes.
How can you prefer a united Belgium as a Flemish person, knowing the French-speaking Belgians have never respected your language and culture? Even today they are still looking down on it. You clearly don't realize it. Flanders would be one of the most wealthy and prosperous countries in the world, instead of being stuck in a forced marriage called Belgium.
@@lecumulet260 well, historically Brabantians and Flemings were extremely close. Brabantian dialects have been called Flemish by foreigners since the 14th-century. Italians called artists who came from the region 'Flemish', even if they came from Brabant. The Flemish cloth industry came in large part from Brabant. The Spanish kings had a Flemish choir. This choir included many Brabantian members as well. At some points, all of the Low Countries (including Brabant) were called Flanders. Conclusion: Flemings and Brabantians have always been extremely close to each other.
@@bjarniyt1402 I can agree with you. The communities have a clear logic to them: Divide by language the aspects of governance that are directly related to language. The regions on the other hand are completely illogical: Why would someone who speaks French have different rules in traffic or agriculture than someone who speaks Dutch? The regions are also most involved in cases where there is an unclear or complicated division of the powers between regional and federal government, which is one of the main problems today.
@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 Ever heard of the 1789 Brabantian Revolution and the foundation of the United States of Belgium? A distinct Belgian culture had been evolving for centuries ever since we got seperated from the rest of the Low Countries and in 1789 the local powers came together (the County of Flanders was one of them) and voluntarily founded the first Belgian State with a treaty written both in French and in Dutch. We were a republic even before France was. Sadly our first state did not survive and only in 1830 we found the courage to break free again after being forced into an artificial reunion with the Netherlands. Belgium has an incredibly rich history, stretching centuries. Modern Flanders on the other hand has existed for barely 60 years. The Flemish movement should be part of a larger Belgian story. I am very thankful for the good it has done, thankful that it did turn political and fought for our rights as Dutch speaking citizens of this country at a time when the Belgian State was criminally misled in its attempt at francophone nationalism. But the battle was won, it is over, we have reclaimed our place. The Flemish Movement should depolitcise and once again become the cultural Belgian force of hope and idealism it once was. Belgium is not simply going to go away, we should make the best out of our country that once knew greatness.
@@belgianvanbeethoven yes I've heard of the Brabantian Revolt. But Belgium's existence still makes no sense. Belgium has no culture and language. The fact it may be 41 years older doesn't change that. That isn't even one lifetime. And yes, there is no Belgian culture. The Flemish and Walloon cultures may share similarities, but they're still way to distinct to call one culture. Also, while modern Flanders has only existed for 60 years, Flanders itself has existed for way longer than that. Btw, even today Flanders still pays billions of euros to Wallonia.
@@WhoTookQuwhu There´s a difference between the original language of the Franks i.e. old low franconian and French, which is a romance language hailing from the Ile de France region of France and which was adopted by the Frankish nobility after the Frankish conquest of the kingdom of Soissons.
I love how everyone's speaking about Belgium as if you're meaning was important. consider it a country or not, most of us in Belgium do and that's the most important. Belgium for ever 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
@@flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 ik ben gewoon Belg. Ik leef in Henegouwen maar spreekt Frans, Nederlands en Duits. Ik ben dat Wallonië-Vlaanderen verhaaltje volledig beu en wil gewoon in een verenigd land leven
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