![]() ![]() Count Philip I (1157–1191) brought further large tracts of marshland under cultivation, laid out the first plans to build a Canal from Dunkirk to Bergues and vested the Dunkirkers with market rights. ![]() The name Dunkirka was first mentioned in a tithe privilege of, issued by Count Baldwin V of Flanders. The surrounding wetlands were drained and cultivated by the monks of nearby Bergues Abbey. ![]() About AD 960, Count Baldwin III had a town wall erected in order to protect the settlement against Viking raids. Until the middle of the 20th century, French Flemish (the local variety of the Dutch language) was commonly spoken.Ī fishing village arose late in the tenth century, in the originally flooded coastal area of the English Channel south of the Western Scheldt, when the area was held by the Counts of Flanders, vassals of the French Crown. A smaller town 25 km farther up the Flemish coast originally shared the same name, but was later renamed Oostduinkerke(n) in order to avoid confusion. The name of Dunkirk derives from West Flemish dun(e) ' dune' or ' dun' and kerke 'church', which together means 'church in the dunes'. ![]()
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