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Today, there exists a tripartite division of North, East and West Frisians; this was caused by Frisia's continual loss of territory in the Middle Ages. The West Frisians, in general, do not see themselves as part of a larger group of Frisians, and, according to a 1970 poll, identify themselves more with the Dutch than with the East or North ...
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.
Frisia [a] (/ ˈ f r ɪ z ɪ ə, 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.
Frisian Americans are Americans with full or partial Frisian ancestry.. Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany.They are closely related to the Dutch, Northern Germans, and the English and speak Frisian languages divided by geographical regions.
A print of Friso, the legendary founder of Frisia, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen (c. 1619). According to a medieval Frisian historiographical work, the Gesta-cycle, [b] after Thomas the Apostle traveled to Christianize India, God led three Christian brothers – Friso, Saxo, and Bruno – from their native home, called Fresia, [c] in northern India to northern Europe.
It was written more than 500 years after the last unambiguous reference to the ancient Frisii (the Panegyrici Latini in c. 297), and at a time when medieval Frisia and the Frisians were playing a dominant role in North Sea trade. The idea that the Frisians might have settled in Scotland and Ireland has triggered several imaginative histories.
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.
[1] [2] (Because the early Frisians and Anglo-Saxons were formed from largely identical tribal confederacies, their respective languages were very similar. Old Frisian is the most closely related language to Old English [ 3 ] and the modern Frisian dialects are in turn the closest related languages to contemporary English.)