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Le Chant des Wallons (238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"The Song of the Walloons" (Walloon: Li tchant des Walons; French: Le Chant des Wallons) is the regional anthem of Wallonia in Belgium. The original lyrics

Wallabout Bay (1,288 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which means "Walloons' Bend", named for its first European settlers: the Walloons, from what is today Wallonia. The Wallabout was first settled by Europeans

French Community of Belgium (1,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is identical to the Walloon flag, which is also the official flag of the Walloons of Wallonia. Wallonia is home to 80% of all Francophone Belgians, with

Walloons (5,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Walloon country is, after le Roman pays the old name of the country of the Walloons. The term "state reform" in the Belgian context indicates a process towards

Walem, Netherlands (124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It was first mentioned in 1360 as Walheym, and means "settlement of the Walloons". Walem has place name signs. It was home to 167 people in 1840. Place

Walloon immigration to Sweden (2,882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assumed, that the Walloons and De Geer fled from their homeland due to religious persecution, nowadays it has been established that the Walloons fled from

Day of the Walloon Region (97 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

each third Sunday of September and commemorates the participation of the Walloons to the Belgian Revolution in 1830. French Community Holiday Carlier,

William Elliot Griffis (3,185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Walloons and the US Constitution of 1787, and how their ideas made a lasting contribution to this country, though at the time (1923) the Walloons

Walloon Guards (919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

As foreign troops without direct ties amongst the Spanish population, the Walloons were often tasked with the maintenance of public order, eventually being

Wallonia (7,831 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strangers, referred to Gallic or Celtic people. Wallonia is named after the Walloons, a group of locals who natively speak Romance languages. In Middle Dutch

Flemish immigration to Wallonia (587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

case of the identity building of the two greatest Belgian population, the Walloons and the Flemings. Among the industrial areas along the Sillon industriel

Jean Leclercq (politician) (163 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Mouscron and Comines were 100% French, and for stronger relations between the Walloons and France. At the communal elections of Tournai in October 1970, he

Walloon name (266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

list of minister-presidents of Wallonia : For French family names among the Walloons and other francophones of Belgium, see French name. The twenty most common

Languages of Belgium (2,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Flemings know French or English respectively, only 19% and 17% of the Walloons know Dutch or English. The measures advocated by the Marshall Plan are

Jessé de Forest (931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was de Forest's desire to establish a Colony in the New World, so that the Walloons could practice their Reformed Protestant Christianity without persecution

Hypothetical partition of Belgium (13,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

institutions. The Flemish historian Maarten van Ginderachter wrote that the Walloons were "excluded from the national power, between 1884 and 1902 there was

Walloon Movement (2,887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Belgians or the French?", published in 1903, denounces the subjection of the Walloons to the Flemings, who are merely the successors of the previous Dutch

History of the Walloon Movement (5,619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

idiom. In their eyes the Flemings had to give up their idiom just as the Walloons had done. The recognition of Dutch pushed the Walloon Movement to more

Battle of Borgerhout (3,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

camisades, to distinguish themselves from the Walloons who fought for the Union of Utrecht. Thus the Walloons looked, in his words, like "a very colorful

Otterberg (662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Spanish Netherlands to settle Otterberg and there was active settlement by the Walloons. They used the stones of the monastery complex for the building of their

1568 in literature (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eglise wallonne (Norwich, England); William John Charles Moens (1887). The Walloons and Their Church at Norwich: Their History and Registers. 1565-1832

Walloon Brabant (1,388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and German or Flemish Belgium was apparently based upon language, with the Walloons speaking French, and the others speaking what he described as a type

State reform in Belgium (1,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

establishment of three Regions, which was a response to the demand of the Walloons and the French-speaking inhabitants of Brussels for economic autonomy

Edward Joris (1,570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

triggered a significant protest movement in Belgium, involving both the Walloons and the Flemish, drawing comparisons to the Dreyfus Affair in France

Battle of Lens (2,285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hillock, were approached by Gramont's cavalry squadrons. At 20 paces, the Walloons discharged their carbines, killing or wounding almost everyone in the

Thorney, Cambridgeshire (1,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

employing the ruins of the abbey for services in their own language. The Walloons had expertise in fenland drainage. The Russell family's rents from the

Marketfield Street (468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Burrows & Wallace, p.88 Griffiths, William Elliot (1923). The Story of the Walloons: at Home in Lands of Exile and in America. Houghton. pp. 205, 340. Burrows

Joris Van Severen (1,293 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was brought about in part by Van Severen "discovering" in 1934 that the Walloons, like the Flemings, were descended from the Franks. To get his ideas

Belgians (2,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

page 645 : « Culturally there is continuity between the French and the Walloons, Wallon culture consisting mainly of dialect literary productions. While

Sack of Antwerp (917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

battle-hardened Spaniards, who swarmed into the city. As had been feared, the Walloons did not fight but fled or even participated in the looting, according

2010–2011 Belgian government formation (3,312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Di Rupo I Government. Tensions had risen between the Flemings and the Walloons: Flanders accused the Walloon region of being dependent on economic subsidies

Flag of Wallonia (382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commonly used by the Walloon Movement. Before the present flag was created, the Walloons used the French flag. The rooster was created in 1913, based on a painting

Yser Front (1,137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between 65 and 80 percent were Flemish, speaking Dutch, while many of the Walloons spoke dialects such as Gaumais or Walloon. The language of command, however

History of Wallonia (5,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centuries, the land of the Walloons has been and has never ceased to be a Romance land. That is the capital fact of the history of the Walloons that explains their

Television in Belgium (2,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

TéléSAT Numérique offers DVB-S and DVB-S2 satellite television aimed at the Walloons, French-speaking market, broadcasting (using Nagravision) via the Eutelsat

Ennerdale, South Africa (2,951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relationships with the German, the Dutch, the French Huguenots, the Flemish, the Walloons, the Mediterranean, the Belgian Flemish, the English, the Portuguese

Léon Degrelle (7,674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

warmed to Degrelle, and by the end of the year he was persuaded to name the Walloons a Germanic people. On 17 January 1943, Degrelle gave a speech at an assembly

Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate (1,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

said to be a clothmaking town. With the Huguenots, or more precisely the Walloons from Belgium who migrated here in the 16th century, a flourishing clothmaking

List of national flag proposals (7,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Flemish people combined with a yellow-red-yellow design representing the Walloons, and their intersection creating four "arrows" pointing to the center

Confederation (3,952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between the Flemish (Belgians who speak Dutch or Dutch dialects) and the Walloons (Belgians who speak French or French dialects). For example, in the last

Commission for Relief in Belgium (1,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the fact that Belgium is composed of two distinct groups of people: the Walloons or French speaking people in the south and the Flemish or Dutch speaking

Fort Orange (New Netherland) (2,807 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

miles south of the confluence of the Mohawk River and the North River. The Walloons were later recalled south to settle New Amsterdam. A 1628 publication

Flemish Legion (2,654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Flemings felt a jealousy that their French speaking countrymen, the Walloons, were granted as a title their home region. Despite this, significant

Battle of Fleurus (1690) (2,234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

into their service. They sent the Germans to the army in Catalonia, the Walloons to Germany and the Dutch to Savoy. Many however escaped and made it back

American College of the Immaculate Conception (1,609 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

crisis erupted in Belgium between the Flemish-speaking population and the Walloons (French speakers). To resolve the dispute, the Catholic University of

Spa, Belgium (2,167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with an increasingly large number of Flemish and Dutch customers, while the Walloons went en masse to the Belgian coast in Flanders. Relaxation tourism replaced

Language legislation in Belgium (1,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bias disadvantaged the largely Flemish North and, to a lesser degree, the Walloons of the South and the mainly German- or Luxembourgish-speaking environs

Battle of Fleurus (1690) (2,234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

into their service. They sent the Germans to the army in Catalonia, the Walloons to Germany and the Dutch to Savoy. Many however escaped and made it back

Esquilache Riots (1,601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

la Armería de Palacio, which was defended by Spanish troops alongside the Walloons. The Walloon troops fired and killed a woman, increasing the number of

Walloon Legion (2,639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. In late 1942, Himmler declared the Walloons to be a Germanic race, paving the way for the unit's incorporation into

Battle of Turnhout (1597) (2,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

first square consisted of Germans led by the Count of Sulz, followed by the Walloons and Burgundians. The Marquis of Treviso brought up the rear with the

Léonie de Waha (534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

She supported proposals for the country to be divided into regions for the Walloons, the Flemings and the inhabitants of Brussels. On 28 October 1912, at

Philip Delano (1,193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Netherlands, were betrothed on January 13, 1596, in the same church. The Walloons were the French-speaking natives of the ancient region of Wallonia, now

2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis (2,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

extra cash was used to increase its risk buffer. Because KBC is seen by the Walloons as a mainly Flemish bank, the federal government was unwilling to participate

Eupen-Malmedy (2,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World War I, German policy of Flamenpolitik (favouring the Flemish over the Walloons) affected Eupen-Malmedy as well. During World War I, Belgium was invaded

Belgian prisoners of war in World War II (1,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that the Flemish were "Germanic" and therefore racially superior to the Walloons. It also hoped to encourage Flemish people to view Germany more favourably

Harry Novillo (1,731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that the Belgian way of life was not for me. Already the Flemish and the Walloons don't like each other so it won't be the French who they particularly

German occupation of Belgium during World War I (4,212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

believed that the Flemish shared racial traits with the Germans that the Walloons did not. The policy achieved support among some demographics, particularly

William John Charles Möens (731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Hampshire Field Club and Archæological Society. Möens edited also: The Walloons and their Church at Norwich: their History and Registers, 1565–1832,

John Cruso (576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

L. Chester, Harleian Society, 15 (1880) William John Charles Möens, The Walloons and their church at Norwich: their history and registers, 1565–1832,

French people in Hungary (2,198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French priest, Jean sacerdos de Olazi in 1330. According to Miklós Oláh the Walloons of Eger spoke French in 1536. During the Great Turkish War the Holy League

Reynard the Fox (3,599 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Middle Dutch referred to northern French-speaking people, specifically the Walloons). Willem's work became one of the standard versions of the legend, and

List of countries by federal system (7,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Brussels for historical and sociological reasons. Historically, the Walloons were for a federalism with three components and the Flemings for two

Huguenots (15,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

according to the Reformed tradition every Sunday at 3 pm. Other evidence of the Walloons and Huguenots in Canterbury includes a block of houses in Turnagain Lane

Battle of Valenciennes (1656) (5,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and second line of works, as did the Germans under Condé in the left. The Walloons and Italians, however, were stopped by the heavy musketry fire from the

Beindersheim (2,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Beindersheimer in the course of the Palatinate succession war, the majority of the Walloons left the village in order to secure themselves on the right side of the

Reformation (28,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

widely discussed in Flemish communities. Reformed theology spread among the Walloons through individuals' correspondence with Calvin and the Genevan academy

Polish Reformed Church (3,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Protestant Solidarity in the Eighteenth Century: Relief Efforts of the Walloons for the Polish Reformed Churches by Kazimierz Bem, page 93, published

Bocskai uprising (4,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spent their military budget, and the unpaid mercenaries (particularly the Walloons) ventured into Hungary and Transylvania. The Tatar auxiliary of the Ottoman

French Colony of Magdeburg (1,050 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

spoke only German, they were still lumped with the French refugees as the "Walloons". By 1703, the population of French colonists had grown to 1,350 people

Albert Folens (734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

insisting that the legion would only fight for Flemish independence against the Walloons. Before going into battle, Albert Folens returned to Belgium and worked

Nanny Lambrecht (1,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Countryside (1913) The Great Duchess (1913) The Iron Joy (1915) The Flat of the Walloons (1915) The Prisoner of Belle – Jeanette (1916) The Hell Experiences (1916)

Battle of Ramillies (7,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

After concentrated volleys, exacting heavy casualties on the redcoats, the Walloons reformed back to the ridgeline in good order. The English took some time

Moravian Historical Society (1,606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by G. F. Bahnson) The Old Mulberry Tree 1925 John Baer Settlement of the Walloons on Manhattan Island in 1624 1925 Paul E. Beck David Tanneberger 1924

Greater Germanic Reich (11,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

detached from the Germanic territories by the French Romanization of the Walloons, and that Germany thus had "every right" to take these back. Before the

History of the Huguenots in Kent (2,098 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lescaillet, formerly a Walloon minister in Sandwich. On the arrival of the Walloons in Canterbury, the two congregations united with Hector Hamon and Antoine

Timeline of Norwich (2,551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Arts. Retrieved 15 September 2013. William John Charles Moens. The Walloons and their Church at Norwich. Stoker, David (1981). "Anthony de Solempne:

History of Flanders (4,690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

King Leopold III should return (which most Flemings supported but not the Walloons) and the use of Dutch in the Catholic University of Leuven. As a result

Stanisław Narutowicz (3,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vision, the Polish minority in Lithuania would gain a status similar to the Walloons in Belgium: with separate culture and language, but united with Lithuanians

Juan del Águila (3,183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

repatriate the Tercios because of the negotiations for submission by the Walloons. In 1582 the Tercio was again called to Flanders, which arrived in late

Belgium in the long nineteenth century (9,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Belgium was irreconcilable, famously stating that "In Belgium, there are the Walloons and the Flemish. There are no Belgians." The 19th century saw a flourishing

History of Belgium (19,973 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

establishment of three Regions, which was a response to the demand of the Walloons and the French-speaking inhabitants of Brussels for economic autonomy

List of regional anthems (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nhadau United Kingdom Wallonia "Le Chant des Wallons" ("The Song of the Walloons") 1998 Théophile Bovy Louis Hillier "Le Chant des Wallons" Belgium West

Immigration to Mexico (10,373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

August 1944. Other Francophone peoples include those from Belgium such as the Walloons and Franco-Swiss from Switzerland. The Belgians, started by the veteran

Francization of Brussels (11,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nation, but the French-speaking citizenry, the Catholic Church, and the Walloons resisted this move. The French-speaking population feared that their

Martineau family (6,373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Martineau. Bacon and Kinnebrook. 1831. p. 21. Retrieved 10 October 2023. The Walloons and Their Church at Norwich. Huguenot Society, London. 1877–88. p. 133

Niedernhausen (7,220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Niedernhausen, among them many Jews. Perhaps these circumstances and the Walloons’ settling in Niedernhausen centuries earlier explain why the presence

List of diasporas (17,891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

million in Metropolitan France in Europe, 3 million in Belgium known as the Walloons, 3 million in western cantons of Switzerland and 2 million others in

Peeters directive (7,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

community have to be homogeneous. The Flemings who settle in Wallonia and the Walloons who settle in Flanders have to be absorbed by the environment. The personal

Political positions of Marine Le Pen (10,916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hand to the Walloons", and that "the historic and fraternal links that unite our two people are too strong for France to abandon the Walloons". She suggested