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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.
The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark, ...
That year the Virginia Colony had expelled the Doeg from Northern Virginia east of the fall line. With the Seneca action, the Virginia Colony became de facto neighbours of part of the Iroquois Five Nations. Although the Iroquois never settled the Piedmont area, they entered it for hunting and raiding against other tribes.
Frisia [a] 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.
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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.
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.
Nicolaas Baur (1736–1817), portrait painter from Harlingen; Eggerik Beninga (1490–1562), East Frisian chronicler; William Bergsma (1921–1994), American composer of Frisian descent