The word "Flemish" refers to the people living in the North of Belgium and France and the South of the Netherlands. The Flemish, also called "Flemings", are of Germanic (Frank) origin. When the Franks invaded what is now Belgium, they settled between the sea and the "charcoal forest", a dense old-growth forest of beech and oak, which extended to the Rhine and formed a natural boundary during the Late Iron Age through Roman times into the Early Middle...
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