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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Created in the year 862CE, the County of '''Flanders''' was divided when its western districts fell under [[France|French]] rule in the late [[12th century]]. The remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of neighbouring [[Hainaut]] in 1191. The entire area passed in 1384 to the [[duke]]s of [[Burgundy]], in 1477 to the [[Habsburg]] dynasty, and in 1556 to the [[king]]s of [[Spain]].<br />
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During the late [[Middle Ages]] Flanders' trading towns (notably '''Ghent''',[[Bruges]] and '''Ypres''') made it one of the most urbanised parts of Europe, weaving the [[wool]] of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.<br />
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Increasingly powerful from the [[12th century]], the territory's autonomous urban communes were instrumental in defeating a French attempt at annexation (1300-1302), finally defeating the French in the '''[[Battle]] of the Golden Spurs''' (July 11, 1302), near Kortrijk. Two years later, the uprising was defeated and Flanders remained part of the French [[Crown]]. Flemish prosperity waned in the following century, however, owing to widespread European population decline following the [[Black Death]] of 1348CE, the disruption of trade during the Anglo-French [[Hundred Years' War]] (1338-1453), and increased [[England|English]] cloth production. Flemish weavers had gone over to Worstead and North Walsham in '''Norfolk''' in the [[12th century]] and established the woollen industry.<br />
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