provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders. Some of the historic county is now part of France and the Netherlands. The land covered by the county is spread
West Flanders and East Flanders, along with neighbouring parts of France and the Netherlands. In this period, cities such as Ghent and Bruges of the historic
Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to
the Netherlands to the north. Zeelandic Flanders is bordered to the south and to the east by Belgium. Zeelandic Flanders is the north-eastern part of the
French Flanders was returned to the Kingdom. The region now called "French Flanders" was once part of the feudal state CountyofFlanders, then part of the