frisia in English

noun
1
an ancient region in northwestern Europe. It included the Frisian Islands and parts of the mainland corresponding to the modern provinces of Friesland and Groningen in the Netherlands and the regions of Ostfriesland and Nordfriesland in northwestern Germany.

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1. Nevertheless absolutism had been, and continued to be, unknown in East Frisia.

2. In medieval writings, the region is designated by the Latin term Frisia.

3. Bunde is among the smaller districts of East Frisia, with a population of 7,607

4. To the east of Frisia were the pagan Saxons, a diffuse and essentially nomadic conglomeration of tribes.

5. The history of the district is linked with the history of the region of East Frisia.

6. It comprised territories from Frisia in the north to the Kingdom of Italy in the south.

7. Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia, in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II.

8. By sending the Roman Abbot Augustine to England, the Pope was preparing the ground for a wonderful cultural and religious development in the Motherland of the missionary to Frisia.

9. Bunde is a municipal district in East Frisia, in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 20 km (12 mi) south of Emden, Germany, and 50 km (30 mi) east of Groningen, Netherlands.It lies on the southern tip of the Dollart, a bay of the North Sea between Germany and the Netherlands, and has a land border with the Netherlands.

10. Bester Bube, Bester Bauer, Bester Buur, Beste Boeren (Holland), Fünfkart, Fiefkarten, Fiefkaart, Fiefkort or Fiefander (), or Lenter (East Frisia) is an historical German card game for 3–6 players played with a Piquet pack.It is one of the Rams group of card games characterised by allowing players to drop out of the current game if they think they will be unable to win any tricks or a