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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.
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.
County of East Frisia: Unmarried: 17 April 1628 Hage aged 25: Half-brother of Sabina Catharina, inherited the main county of East Frisia. Left no descendants. The county passed to his brother. Ulrich II: 6 July 1605 Aurich Second son of Enno III and Anna of Holstein-Gottorp: 17 April 1628 – 1 November 1648: County of East Frisia: Juliana of ...
Ostfriesland (light green), Oldenburger Friesland (dark green) and other areas (grey) that are part of East Frisia. East Frisia (German: Ost-Friesland; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oost-Freesland) is a collective term for all traditionally Frisian areas in Lower Saxony, Germany, which are primarily located on a peninsula between the Dollart and the Jade Bight.
The Counts of Oldenburg were bitter enemies of East Frisia and this step would have been viewed with suspicion at the East Frisian court. Between 1495 and 1497, Count Edzard I of East Frisia attempted to gain control of the lordships of Esens, Stedesdorf and Wittmund, as well as the Lordship of Jever , through military display of force.
Now it is a Dutch province. As a rule, its inhabitants do not consider their province as a part of Frisia, though the area has many cultural ties with neighbouring East Frisia. East Frisia was an independent county since 1464, later a principality within the Holy Roman Empire until 1744. By then, it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia.
This is a list of East Frisian people who are important to the region of East Frisia and its history in that they have played a key role in the region or are otherwise renowned and closely linked to East Frisia.
Around 1417, A Treatise on the Seven Sealands describes the Seven Sealands as a symbolically unified area from West Frisia to around the Weser river in modern-day northwest Germany. [10] In part of the Gerda, this is framed to be from West Frisia west of the Vlie to Dithmarschen far east of the Weser river. [5]