Many Flemish people, or Flemings, escaped to England. Initially welcomed, they soon began to irritate their hosts. ... It was almost ethnic cleansing.

Belgium may appear to outsiders as a good example of ethnic power sharing, but the last time the French-speaking Walloons supplied the country’s Prime Minister was in 1978. So, in Sunday’s ...

Ethnic riots swept the country, including one in which three protesters were shot. Many citizens feared that hatreds were escalating out of control. Then the king abdicated, and tensions cooled.

The Flemish colonists in Wales: Asylum Seekers Flanders suffered greatly after a series of storms, in 1106. Samuel Lewis wrote, "During a tremendous storm on the coast of Flanders, the sand hills ...

The Béguines were women who dedicated their lives to God without retiring from the world. In the 13th century they founded the béguinages, enclosed communities designed to meet their spiritual and ...

Many Flemish people, or Flemings, escaped to England. Initially welcomed, they soon began to irritate their hosts. ... It was almost ethnic cleansing.