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The collective term for its holders in a certain locality is the Ridderschap ( e. g. Ridderschap van Holland, Ridderschap van Friesland, etc .).
It still needed to be brought up to its full height, and a road linking Friesland and North Holland remained to be built.
In the province of Friesland, which has its own official language ( West Frisian language ), some trilingual primary schools exist.
het Bildt () is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands ; its capital is Sint Annaparochie.
The dike itself however was not finished yet as it still needed to be brought up to its required height and a road linking Friesland and North Holland ( the current A7 / E22 motorway ) also remained to be built.
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.
Throughout this period there were, in fact, not one single navy but instead five separate Admiralties ( three of them in Holland, and one each in Friesland and Zeeland ), each with its own ships, personnel and command structure.
International tourists who have visited Friesland and who have observed this sport have helped to spread its popularity throughout the globe.
This was temporarily resolved by a solution imposed by Holland, putting Friesland in its place, which the Frisians understandably resented.
The fall of Groningen also rendered Drenthe secure and this area was constituted as a separate province ( as annexation by either Friesland or Groningen was unacceptable to the other party ) with its own States and stadtholder ( again William Louis ), though Holland blocked its getting a vote in the States-General.
For that reason the Dutch paid for the army of Count Ernst von Mansfeld that was cowering against the Dutch border in East Friesland after its defeats against the Spanish and Imperial forces ; it was hoped that in this way a complete encirclement of the Republic could be avoided.
This is because Leeuwarden is the biggest city in Friesland and its capital.
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
The year 1672 saw the construction of a Motte-and-bailey wall ( de Skâns ) around the settlement, due to its strategic position to protect the regained independence of Friesland in the aftermath of the Friso-Hollandic Wars.
Friesland is renowned for its many lakes and canals.
The 106-year-old ship was provided by its owners, Gijs en Inge van Hesteren from Harlingen, Friesland, the Netherlands.
The Fryske Akademy, founded in 1938, is the scientific centre for research and education concerning Friesland ( Fryslân in West Frisian ) and its people, language and culture, this in its broadest sense.
The social purpose of the Fryske Akademy is, as its statutes have it, the maintenance of societies for the study of Friesland, in which professional scientists and amateur scientists participate.
The Leeuwarder Courant was the first paper in the Dutch province Friesland and its capital Leeuwarden.
For a long time it was the only medium for advertisements in the region, which helped ensure its commercial success, and until 1842 it was the only serious newspaper in Friesland.
However, even though West Friesland formed a united province with Holland in the Dutch Republic, it was recognized a separate region and the parliament of said province, commonly known as Holland, was formally known as the States of Holland and West Friesland, showing that West Friesland was still recognized in its own right.

Friesland and independence
On Zeeland the local lords had a high degree of independence during the 12th and 13th centuries, owing to the wider conflict for power between neighbouring Flanders and Friesland.

Friesland and back
Foekje returned back home to Friesland and did not leave her house for at least one year.
Another settlement Akraberg was abandoned around 1350 because of the black death, the people who lived there at that time came from Friesland, and legend has it that people in Hørg ( in Sumba ) can trace their ancestry back to this settlement, which was situated on the southernmost point of the island.
Royal Friesland Foods is organized as a cooperative, with roots going back to 1879.

Friesland and with
Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 / 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323 and as Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, became also Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340 and Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1345.
Added to that, the common black-and-white dairy cow had been bred in the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Friesland, then introduced to the North American colony of New Amsterdam ( in the mid-1600s ) further strengthening the association of cheese with the Dutch.
IJsselmeer (; Lake IJssel, alternative international spelling: Lake Yssel ) is a shallow artificial lake of 1100 km² in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m. The IJsselmeer is the largest lake in Western Europe.
It consisted of a large dam connecting the northern tip of North Holland with the western coast of Friesland and the creation of initially four polders in the northwest, the northeast, southeast ( later split in two ), and southwest of what would be renamed the IJsselmeer ( IJssel-lake ), with two major lanes of water spared for shipping and drainage.
Although in 1672 this had again changed, with the English having replaced the capital ships lost, while few Dutch ships had been built and one of the five autonomous Dutch admiralties, that of Friesland, was unable to contribute many ships because that province was attacked by Münster, the Dutch successfully prevented a blockade of their coast and any landing of enemy troops, despite being outnumbered by a third by the combined Anglo-French fleet.
This Bosatlas van Fryslân is completely dedicated to the Dutch province of Friesland, with historical and modern maps, aerophotography and background information on hundreds of topics.
A railway line, operated by Arriva, connects the town with Leeuwarden in Friesland and Groningen.
" means cum annexis, with annex ) or fully Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (, West Frisian: Kollumerlân, Gronings: Kölmerlaand ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland.
Provision for a railway line linking North Holland and Friesland ( between Anna Paulowna and Harlingen ) had been included on the Afsluitdijk, in the form of a linear reservation, along with extra drawbridge abutments at the locks.
In 1977 the district was merged with the District of Friesland ; however, the merger was not popular.
The mainstream popularity of the Dutch roots revival was short-lived, but it continued in Friesland, where a handful of groups, starting with Irolt in the mid-1970s, sang in the West Frisian language.
The people from what are today northern Germany and Denmark who settled in England from about 400 onwards came from the same regions and spoke more or less the same language as the people who lived in Frisia ( as medieval Friesland is usually called to distinguish it from the present-day regions with that name ).
Oort was born in Franeker, Friesland and studied in Groningen with Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn.
Jorwert () is a village in Friesland, in the municipality of Littenseradiel, with a population of 360.
Supposedly she met Rembrandt at the home of her uncle, Hendrick van Uylenburgh, a painter and art dealer who had emigrated from Friesland to Kraków in Poland with his parents but decided in 1625 to move to the Dutch Republic, where there was growing tolerance after the death of Maurice of Orange.
It is not to be confused with the similarly named Friesland in the Netherlands.
In the north the adherents of the Union of Utrecht managed to consolidate their position in the provinces of Friesland and Gelderland by May, though not without a struggle with the conservatives.
This provided Leicester with an anti-Holland power base from which he could make difficulties for the Dutch regents in other provinces, especially Friesland, also.
After Louis died in 840, his son Emperor Lothair I, King of Middle Francia, rewarded the Danish brothers Rorik and Harald with Frisia-current day Friesland and Holland-in an attempt to resist the attacks of the Vikings.
The title became well known outside of Friesland only with the installation of Albrecht of Saxony as hereditary potestate in 1498 ; the Frisians chose Jancko Douwama as their imperial stadtholder ( 1522 ).

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