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The Frisians (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ən z /) are an ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark, and during the Early Middle Ages in the north-western coastal zone of Flanders, [9] Belgium.
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.
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.
Frisians, the medieval and modern ethnic group inhabiting Frisia Frisii, the ancient inhabitants of Frisia prior to 600 AD; Frisian languages, a group of West Germanic languages, including: Old Frisian, spoken in Frisia from the 8th to 16th Century; Middle Frisian, spoken in Frisia from the 16th to 19th Century
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.
The West Frisians or, more precisely, the Westlauwers Frisians (Dutch: Friezen or Westerlauwerse Friezen, West Frisian: Friezen or Westerlauwerske Friezen), are those Frisian peoples in that part of Frisia administered by the Netherlands: the Province of Friesland, which is bounded in the west by the IJsselmeer and in the east by the River Lauwers (hence the name Westlauwers, i.e., "west of ...