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East Frisia or East Friesland (German: Ostfriesland; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oostfräisland; Saterland Frisian: Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is primarily located on the western half of the East Frisian peninsula , to the east of West Frisia and to the west of Landkreis Friesland .
East Frisia c. 1600, drawn by Ubbo Emmius. The history of East Frisia developed rather independently from the rest of Germany because the region was relatively isolated for centuries by large stretches of bog to the south, while at the same time its people were oriented towards the sea. Thus in East Frisia [1] in the Middle Ages there was ...
History of Frisia. 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. The archeological record goes all the way back to the Neolithic era ...
Frisian freedom. The Frisian freedom ( West Frisian: Fryske frijheid; Dutch: Friese vrijheid; German: Friesische Freiheit) was a period of the absence of feudalism in Frisia during the Middle Ages. Its main aspects included freedom from serfdom, feudal duties and taxation, as well as the election of judges and adjudicators .
The 15th century saw the demise of Frisian republicanism. In East Frisia, a leading nobleman from the Cirksena-family managed to defeat his competitors with the help of the Hanseatic League. In 1464 he acquired the title of count of East Frisia. The king of Denmark was successful in subduing the coastal districts North of the Eider River.
1,800 km 2 (690 sq mi) Preceded by. Succeeded by. East Frisian chieftains. Frisian freedom. Kingdom of Prussia. The County of East-Frisia ( 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 ...
Roman Catholic minority. The Frisians 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. They inhabit an area known as Frisia and are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and ...
Chicago appears under various spellings in maps dating from the 17th century and is present in most 18th-century maps of North America. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was the first non-indigenous permanent resident of the area, settling at the mouth of the Chicago River no later than 1790. [12]