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Frisia [a] (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /) is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe. Stretching along the Wadden Sea, it encompasses the north of the Netherlands and parts of northwestern Germany. Wider definitions of "Frisia" may include the island of Rem and the other Danish Wadden Sea Islands.
Friesland (/ ˈ f r iː z l ə n d / FREEZ-lənd; Dutch: [ˈfrislɑnt] ⓘ; official West Frisian: Fryslân [ˈfrislɔ̃ːn] ⓘ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /), named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.
Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, the Frisian folk hero and freedom fighter. Frisia is a small region in the north of the modern day country known as the Netherlands.In the Iron Age, the ancestors of the modern Frisians first migrated south out of modern day Scandinavia to the south west where they began to settle along the coast.
East Frisia (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /) or East Friesland (/ ˈ f r iː z l ə n d /; German: Ostfriesland; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oostfräisland; Saterland Frisian: Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Frisia was granted to the Danish Viking Rorik of Dorestad [38] between 841 and 880, followed by another Danish Viking Godfrid, Duke of Frisia until he was killed in 885. [39] The area was subsequently under Gerolf of Holland. [40] Before 1101, sources talk about counts ruling over Frisia, west of the Vlie as Frisian counts.
In 1524, Frisia became part of the Seventeen Provinces and in 1568 joined the Dutch revolt against Philip II, king of Spain, heir of the Burgundian territories; Central Frisia has remained a part of the Netherlands ever since. The eastern periphery of Frisia would become part of various German states (later Germany) and Denmark. An old ...
The County of East Frisia (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /; Frisian: Greefskip Eastfryslân; Dutch: Graafschap Oost-Friesland) was a county (though ruled by a prince after 1662) in the region of East Frisia in the northwest of the present-day German state of Lower Saxony.
East Frisia c. 1600, drawn by Ubbo Emmius. The history of East Frisia developed rather independently from the rest of Germany because the region was relatively isolated for centuries by large stretches of bog to the south, while at the same time its people were oriented towards the sea.