Frisii, the Glossary
The Frisii were an ancient tribe, living in the low-lying region between the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and the River Ems, sharing some cultural and linguistic elements with the neighbouring Celts.[1]
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107 relations: Alliterative verse, Ancient Rome, Angles (tribe), Anglo-Saxons, Ardotalia, Auraicept na n-Éces, Batavi (Germanic tribe), Bath, Somerset, Battle of Baduhenna Wood, Beowulf, Book of Leinster, Bremen, Bruges, Byzantine Empire, Cananefates, Celts, Chamavi, Chauci, Chilperic I, Cohort (military unit), Cologne, Constantius Chlorus, Cormac mac Airt, Derbyshire, Ems (river), Epic poetry, Escharen, Etymologiae, Firth of Forth, Flanders, Fomorians, Frankish Table of Nations, Franks, Frisia, Frisians, Frisiavones, Gaius Julius Civilis, Gallia Belgica, Germania (book), Germania Inferior, Germanic paganism, Germanic peoples, Glossop, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Gregory of Tours, Groningen (province), Hadrian's Wall, Historia Brittonum, Hygelac, Isidore of Seville, ... Expand index (57 more) »
- History of East Frisia
- History of Frisia
- Ingaevones
- Iron Age peoples of Europe
Alliterative verse
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Angles (tribe)
The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. Frisii and Angles (tribe) are early Germanic peoples and Ingaevones.
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. Frisii and Anglo-Saxons are early Germanic peoples.
Ardotalia
Ardotalia (from British Celtic for "high dark hill"), also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England.
Auraicept na n-Éces
Auraicept na nÉces ("The Scholars' Primer") is an Old Irish text on language and grammar.
See Frisii and Auraicept na n-Éces
Batavi (Germanic tribe)
The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD. Frisii and Batavi (Germanic tribe) are early Germanic peoples.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.
Battle of Baduhenna Wood
The Battle of Baduhenna Wood was a battle, possibly fought near Heiloo, Netherlands, in 28 AD between the Frisii and a Roman army led by the Roman general Lucius Apronius.
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Beowulf
Beowulf (Bēowulf) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
Book of Leinster
The Book of Leinster (Lebor Laignech, LL) is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled and now kept in Trinity College Dublin, under the shelfmark MS H 2.18 (cat. 1339).
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Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
Bruges
Bruges (Brugge; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Cananefates
The Cananefates, or Canninefates, Caninefates, or Canenefatae, meaning "boat masters" (or, less likely, "leek masters"), were a Germanic tribe, who lived in the Rhine delta, in western Batavia (later Betuwe), in the Roman province of Germania Inferior (now in the Dutch province of South Holland), before and during the Roman conquest. Frisii and Cananefates are early Germanic peoples.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
See Frisii and Celts
Chamavi
The Chamavi, Chamãves or Chamaboe (Χαμαβοί) were a Germanic tribe of Roman imperial times whose name survived into the Early Middle Ages. Frisii and Chamavi are early Germanic peoples.
Chauci
The Chauci were an ancient Germanic tribe living in the low-lying region between the Rivers Ems and Elbe, on both sides of the Weser and ranging as far inland as the upper Weser. Frisii and Chauci are early Germanic peoples, history of East Frisia and Ingaevones.
Chilperic I
Chilperic I (539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death.
Cohort (military unit)
A cohort (from the Latin cohors,: cohortes; see wikt:cohors for full inflection table) was a standard tactical military unit of a Roman legion.
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Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Constantius Chlorus
Flavius Valerius Constantius (– 25 July 306), also called Constantius I, was a Roman emperor from 305 to 306.
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Cormac mac Airt
Cormac mac Airt, also known as Cormac ua Cuinn (grandson of Conn) or Cormac Ulfada (long beard), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.
Ems (river)
The Ems (Ems; Eems) is a river in northwestern Germany.
Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
Escharen
Escharen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant.
Etymologiae
Etymologiae (Latin for 'Etymologies'), also known as the Origines ('Origins'), usually abbreviated Orig., is an etymological encyclopedia compiled by the influential Christian bishop Isidore of Seville towards the end of his life.
Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.
Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Fomorians
The Fomorians or Fomori (Fomóire, Modern Fomhóraigh / Fomóraigh) are a supernatural race in Irish mythology, who are often portrayed as hostile and monstrous beings.
Frankish Table of Nations
The Frankish Table of Nations is a brief early medieval genealogical text in Latin giving the supposed relationship between thirteen nations descended from three brothers.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages. Frisii and Franks are early Germanic peoples.
Frisia
Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.
Frisians
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, Belgium.
Frisiavones
The Frisiavones (also Frisaevones or Frisaebones) were a Germanic people living near the northern border of Gallia Belgica during the early first millennium AD. Frisii and Frisiavones are early Germanic peoples and history of Frisia.
Gaius Julius Civilis
Gaius Julius Civilis (AD 25 –) was the leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans in 69 AD.
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Gallia Belgica
Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
Germania (book)
The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 AD and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (De origine et situ Germanorum), is a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic peoples outside the Roman Empire.
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Germania Inferior
Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west bank of the Rhine bordering the North Sea.
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Germanic paganism
Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Glossop
Glossop is a market town in the borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of Matlock.
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (Peltuinum c. AD 7 – 67) was a popular Roman general, brother-in-law of the emperor Caligula and father-in-law of Domitian.
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Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours (born italic; 30 November – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".
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Groningen (province)
Groningen (Grunn; Grinslân) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands.
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Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.
Historia Brittonum
The History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is a purported history of early Britain written around 828 that survives in numerous recensions from after the 11th century.
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Hygelac
Hygelac (Hygelāc; Hugleikr; Hugilaikaz; Ch(l)ochilaicus or Hugilaicus; died 516 or 521) was a king of the Geats according to the poem Beowulf.
Isidore of Seville
Isidore of Seville (Isidorus Hispalensis; 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville.
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Island
An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.
Itinerarium
An itinerarium (plural: itineraria) was an ancient Roman travel guide in the form of a listing of cities, villages (''vici'') and other stops on the way, including the distances between each stop and the next.
Kennemerland
Kennemerland is a coastal region in the northwestern Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
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King Arthur
King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.
King of the Geats
Geatish kings (Rex Getarum/Gothorum; Götakungar), ruling over the provinces of Götaland (Gautland/Geatland), appear in several sources for early Swedish history.
See Frisii and King of the Geats
Laeti
(), the plural form of, was a term used in the late Roman Empire to denote communities of ("barbarians"), i.e. foreigners, or people from outside the Empire, permitted to settle on, and granted land in, imperial territory on condition that they provide recruits for the Roman military.
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Layamon's Brut
Layamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English alliterative verse poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon.
Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774. Frisii and Lombards are early Germanic peoples.
Luccreth moccu Chiara
Luccreth moccu Chíara (floruit c. 665 AD)Eoin MacNeill, "A Pioneer of Nations: part II", Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review vol 11, no 43, 1922, pp.
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Lucius Apronius
Lucius Apronius was a Roman senator and suffect consul in 8 AD.
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Mamucium
Mamucium, also known as Mancunium, is a former Roman fort in the Castlefield area of Manchester in North West England.
Merovingian dynasty
The Merovingian dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751.
See Frisii and Merovingian dynasty
Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
Migration Period
The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.
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Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.
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Nennius
Nennius – or Nemnius or Nemnivus – was a Welsh monk of the 9th century.
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.
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Nero Claudius Drusus
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (38–9 BC), also called Drusus the Elder, was a Roman politician and military commander.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
North Brabant
North Brabant (Noord-Brabant; Brabantian), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands.
Notitia Dignitatum
The Notitia dignitatum et administrationum omnium tam civilium quam militarium (Latin for 'List of all dignities and administrations both civil and military') is a document of the Late Roman Empire that details the administrative organization of the Western and the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Old Frisian
Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries along the North Sea coast, roughly between the mouths of the Rhine and Weser rivers.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon (altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Europe).
Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity," an encyclopædic work in English consisting of articles relating to classical antiquity and its civilizations.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Panegyrici Latini
XII Panegyrici Latini or Twelve Latin Panegyrics is the conventional title of a collection of twelve ancient Roman and late antique prose panegyric orations written in Latin.
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Phrygia
In classical antiquity, Phrygia (Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.
Picts
The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Procopius
Procopius of Caesarea (Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς Prokópios ho Kaisareús; Procopius Caesariensis; –565) was a prominent late antique Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima.
Promagistrate
In ancient Rome, a promagistrate (pro magistratu) was a person who was granted the power via prorogation to act in place of an ordinary magistrate in the field.
Quintus Petillius Cerialis
Quintus Petillius Cerialis Caesius Rufus (AD 30 — after AD 83), otherwise known as Quintus Petillius Cerialis, was a Roman general and administrator who served in Britain during Boudica's rebellion and went on to participate in the civil wars after the death of Nero.
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Ravenna Cosmography
The Ravenna Cosmography (Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the world from India to Ireland, compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around 700 AD.
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Revolt of the Batavi
The Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") between AD 69 and 70.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
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Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
The Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta is a river delta in the Netherlands formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse (Maas) and the Scheldt rivers.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Saxons
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Frisii and Saxons are early Germanic peoples and Ingaevones.
Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
Serfdom
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems.
Storm surge
A storm surge, storm flood, tidal surge, or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low-pressure weather systems, such as cyclones.
Suzerainty
Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.
Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.
Tadc mac Céin
Tadc mac Céin, in medieval Irish historical tradition, was the grandson of Ailill Aulom and Sadb, daughter of Conn Cetcathach.
Terp
A terp, also known as a wierde, woerd, warf, warft, werf, werve, wurt or værft, is an artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain that has been created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and sea or river flooding.
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Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist.
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Troy
Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.
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Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (530 600/609 AD; Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus, was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
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Vindobala
Vindobala (Brytonnic Celtic: windo- fair, white, bala place, situation?, cf. Old Irish bal, bail place, situation, condition, good luck) was a Roman fort with the modern name, and in the hamlet of, Rudchester, Northumberland.
Volcanic winter of 536
The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
Widsith
"Widsith" (Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", is an Old English poem of 143 lines.
Zuiderzee
The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands.
See also
History of East Frisia
- Auricherland
- Battle of Jemmingen
- Bay of Sielmönken
- Brokmerbrief
- Brokmerland
- Buise
- Chauci
- Cirksena
- County of East Frisia
- Eala Frya Fresena
- East Frisian chieftains
- Emden Revolution
- Emden-Pewsum-Greetsiel Light Railway
- Ems-Oriental
- Emsigerland
- Evenburg
- February flood of 1825
- Federgo
- Frisian Way
- Frisii
- Harderwykenburg
- Harlebucht
- Harlingerland
- Hilgenried Bay
- History of East Frisia
- Krake ZK 14
- List of counts of East Frisia
- Ludger
- Ludwig Münchmeyer
- Norderland
- Osterburg (Groothusen)
- Peasant republic
- Rheiderland
- St. Peter's flood
- Treaty of Berum
- Treaty of Fontainebleau (November 1807)
- Victual Brothers
- Walle Plough
History of Frisia
- Canon of Friesland
- Cuneus Frisionum
- De itinere Frisonum
- Friesland Battalion
- Frisian Kingdom
- Frisian freedom
- Frisian involvement in the Crusades
- Frisian nationalism
- Frisian–Frankish wars
- Frisiavones
- Frisii
- Godfrid Haraldsson
- History of East Frisia
- History of Frisia
- Ingaevones
- Lex Frisionum
- Marsacii
- Uthlande
Ingaevones
Iron Age peoples of Europe
- Aesti
- Dacians
- Early Germanic peoples
- Frisii
- Gabrantovices
- Harii
- Helveconae
- Hilleviones
- Lopocares
- Scythians
- Turcilingi
- Visigoths
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisii
Also known as Disappearance of the Frisii.
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