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East Frisian Low Saxon (or Eastern Friesland Low Saxon, as some people prefer to say for a better distinction from East Frisian, which is Frisian but not Low Saxon) is a variant of Low German with many of its own features due to the Frisian substrate and some other influences originating in the varied history of East Frisia.
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.
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On the East Frisian island of Juist for example, since the year 1650 there are five different proven sites for the church, as the spot for rebuilding the church had to keep pace with the ever-moving island. At times, Juist even consisted of two islands, which eventually grew back together.
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.
East Frisia was from then on regarded as a hostile territory, and many skirmishes between Jever and East Frisia took place during the 15th and 16th centuries. The last ruler of Jever was Mary of Jever, who ruled until 1575. After her death Jever became a part of Oldenburg, but East Frisia made a claim for the territory as well. In the following ...
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.
Map of East Frisia East Frisia around 1600, drawn by Ubbo Emmius The Leybucht is the second largest bay in East Frisia in northwest Germany after the Dollart . The Jade Bight is larger than both, but belongs historically to Oldenburg .