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The
Frisians
are a group of people of northwestern
Europe
, living in an area known as
Frisia
. They are mainly in the Dutch areas of
Friesland
and
Groningen
and, in
Germany
,
East Frisia
and
North Frisia
. They are said to be a tall, big-boned and light-haired people with a rich history and folklore.
Frisian settlement area
The Frisians were able to make an
agreement
with the
Romans
at the
River Rhine
in 28 CE. Sixteen years later they
defeated
the Romans under
Tiberius
at the
Battle
of Baduhennawood. The Frisii were known and respected by the Romans and were written about by several writers.
Tacitus
wrote about the Germanic peoples in 69 CE, describing the habits of the Germanic people, as well as listing a lot of Frisian groups by name.
[1]
Of the many groups he listed, the Frisians are the only ones that have kept their old name.
[2]
The Frisians probably used boats. The
North Sea
from
Britain
to Eastern
Denmark
, was called
Mare Frisia
at that time. Small groups of Frisians settled the lands around them and their homes have been found in
England
,
Scotland
, Denmark, Germany,
Belgium
,
France
and
The Netherlands
.
Their land followed the edge of the North Sea from the mouth of the Rhine river up to that of the
Ems
. The Ems was the eastern edge of their land according to
Ptolemy
's
Geographica
.
In the 5th century, the
Anglo-Saxons
went through Frisian territory to
invade
Great Britain. A lot of Frisians moved with them. The Frisians who stayed in Europe moved into the lands where the
Anglo-Saxons
used to live.
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