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Westende / 0.2 km
Westende is a town in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West-Flanders. It lies on the Belgian coast, also called Flemish coast. It used to be the far west (West-ende: Dutch for west-end) of the island Testerep which lay along the Belgian coast. (mehr)Lombardsijde / 1.1 km
Lombardsijde, also Lombartzyde, is a district in the Belgian municipality of Middelkerke in West Flanders province, in northwestern Belgium near Nieuwpoort.Merriam-Webster's Geographic Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 662. Fighting occurred in and around Lombardsijde during World War I (...) (mehr)Battle of Nieuwpoort / 1.6 km
The Battle of Nieuwpoort,Also known as the Battle of the Dunes between a Dutch army under Maurice of Nassau and Francis Vere and a Spanish army under Albert of Austria, took place on 2 July 1600 near the present-day Belgian city Nieuwpoort. (...) (mehr)Nieuport Memorial / 2.3 km
The British Nieuport Memorial is a First World War memorial, located in the Belgian port city of Nieuwpoort , which is at the mouth of the River Yser. The memorial lists 547 names of British officers and men with no known grave who were killed in the Siege of Antwerp in 1914 or in the defence of (...) (mehr)Battle of the Yser / 2.7 km
The Battle of the Yser was a battle of World War I that took place in October 1914 between the towns on Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide, along a stretch of the Yser River and the Yperlee Canal, in Belgium. The front line was held by a large Belgian force, which halted the German advance in a costly (...) (mehr)powered by Geonames.org, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap