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    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...
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    Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe. Stretching along the Wadden Sea, it encompasses the north of the Netherlands and parts...
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    the extent of this realm; There is no documentary evidence for the existence of a permanent central authority. Possibly, Frisia consisted of multiple petty...
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    The history of East Frisia developed rather independently from the rest of Germany because the region was relatively isolated for centuries by large stretches...
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    of various cultures. The period after prehistory can only be reconstructed from archaeological evidence. Access to the early history of East Frisia is...
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    Frisian freedom (redirect from Free Frisia)
    Friese vrijheid; German: Friesische Freiheit) was a period of the absence of feudalism in Frisia during the Middle Ages. Its main aspects included freedom...
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    Frisian nationalism (category History of Frisia)
    Latin names Magna Frisia (Greater Frisia) and Tota Frisia (Whole Frisia). Frisia is usually divided into three parts: West Frisia in the northern Netherlands...
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    Frisian–Frankish wars (category History of Frisia)
    only annexed Frisia Citerior ("nearer" Frisia south of the Rhine), but he also crossed the Rhine and annexed "farther" Frisia, to the banks of the river...
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    'AVDVLFVS FRISIA' and 'VICTVRIA AVDVLFO', as well as 'FRISIA' and 'AVDVLFVS' have been found at Escharen, a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant...
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    The Lordship of Frisia or Lordship of Friesland (West Frisian: Hearlikheid Fryslân, Dutch: Heerlijkheid Friesland) was a feudal dominion in the Netherlands...
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    Frisia (German: Nordfriesland; North Frisian: Nordfraschlönj; Danish: Nordfrisland, Low German: Noordfreesland) is the northernmost portion of Frisia...
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  • as Frisia and are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia (which was a part of Denmark...
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    county as Frisia, west of the Vlie (also known as West Frisia). Before 1101, sources talk about Frisian counts, but in this year Floris II, Count of Holland...
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    This is a list of historically verifiable, legendary and fictitious rulers of Frisia, whether they were called chieftains, counts, dukes or kings. The...
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  • Friesland Battalion (category History of Frisia)
    R.I.) was a battalion made up of oorlogsvrijwilligers from Friesland that participated in the Dutch 'police actions' of the Indonesian National Revolution...
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  • Lex Frisionum (category History of Frisia)
    Frankish conquest of Frisia was completed by the final defeat of the Saxon rebel leader Widukind. The law code covered the region of the Frisians. The...
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    secular history of Frisia and Groningen and even the Crusades to the Holy Land. According to his own writing he copied a naval itinerary of the Frisian's...
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    known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen...
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    of East Frisia (Frisian: Greefskip Eastfryslân; Dutch: Graafschap Oost-Friesland) was a county (though ruled by a prince after 1662) in the region of...
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    Matilda of Frisia (died in 1044) was Queen of the Franks as the first wife of Henry I. Her date of birth is unknown. She was the daughter of Liudolf, Margrave...
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  • centuries. Yet, their efforts were directed at the fringes of the Merovingian territory, that is, at Frisia, north-east Austrasia and Thuringia. These areas were...
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    Cuneus Frisionum (category History of Frisia)
    Cuneus Frisionum or Frisiorum cuneus are the names of units of Frisian auxiliaries in the Roman army. Two memorial stones in Housesteads, Hexham, England...
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  • son or, more likely, a grandson of the earlier Gerolf, who was a count in the area of Frisia at the time of the reign of Emperor Louis the Pious (fl. 833)...
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    Frisian involvement in the Crusades (category History of Frisia)
    fleet of pirates, hailing from Denmark, Frisia, and Flanders and led by Guynemer of Boulogne, who assisted Baldwin of Boulogne at Tarsus. Although unsubstantiated...
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    The counts and princes of East Frisia from the East Frisian noble House of Cirksena descended from a line of East Frisian chieftains from Greetsiel. The...
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    standard Dutch and German. Frisia highlighted on a map of Europe Frisia West and East Frisia were once connected. North Frisia was colonized by Frisians...
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  • Frisiavones (category History of Frisia)
    northern border of Gallia Belgica during the early first millennium AD. Little is known about them, but they appear to have resided in the area of what is today...
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    of Christian Schotanus's History of Frisia, 1658 Charlemagne at Kremsmünster Abbey, by Johann Peter Spaz, 1667 Charlemagne at the Jesuit college of Kutná...
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    Uthlande (category History of Frisia)
    Friselagen) is a term for the islands, halligen and marshes off the mainland of North Frisia in the Southwest Jutland, modern Nordfriesland district, Germany. The...
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  • Godfrid Haraldsson (category History of Frisia)
    Rorik, the son of his father's brother (his cousin). In 850 they united against Lothair and raided Dorestad. Rorik took possession of Frisia. Godfrid continued...
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