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	Frisian Islands - LoveToKnow 1911
		FRISIAN ISLANDS, a chain of islands, lying from 3 to 20 M. from the mainland, and stretching from the Zuider Zee E. and N. as far as Jutland, along the coasts of Holland and Germany.
		The chain of the Frisian Islands marks the outer fringe of the former continental coast-line, and is separated from the mainland by shallows, known as Wadden or Watten, answering to the maria vadosa of the Romans.
		The West Frisian Islands belong to the kingdom of the Netherlands, and embrace Texel or Tessel (71 sq.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Frisian_Islands (1070 words)

	Frisian Islands - MSN Encarta
		Frisian Islands, group of islands, north-western Europe, in the North Sea, off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany, and extending north from the mouth of the Elbe River along the Jutland Peninsula to Denmark.
		The chief occupations of the Frisians are fishing, raising sheep and cattle, and farming (mainly potatoes).
		The West Frisian Islands are part of the Netherlands and include Texel, Terschelling, Vlieland, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog, Rottumerplaat, and Rottumeroog.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577999/Frisian_Islands.html (198 words)

	Frisian Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Frisian Islands form an archipelago in northwestern Europe that spreads across the coasts of three countries, from west to east, The Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
		These islands along with the mainland coast in the German Bight form the region of Frisia, traditional homeland of the Frisian people.
		Most of it is protected, and an international wildlife nature reserve is being coordinated between the three countries; gas and oil drilling continue, however, and the presence of the Ems, Weser and Elbe estuaries and the ensuing ship traffic cause tension between wildlife protection and economics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frisian_Islands (186 words)

	Frisian Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		FRISIAN ISLANDS [Frisian Islands], chain of low-lying islands, off the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, in the North Sea.
		The West Frisian Islands, belonging to the Netherlands, are off the shores of North Holland, Friesland, and Groningen provs.
		The East Frisian Islands, belonging to Germany, are east of the mouth of the Ems and include Norderney and Borkum.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-frisiani1.html (271 words)

	Friesian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Frisian Language, language of the historical Frisian people, now an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, with dialects still spoken...
		Frisian Literature, writings in the Frisian language, spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland and the Frisian Islands.
		Frisian Islands, group of islands, northwestern Europe, in the North Sea, off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany, and extending north from...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Friesian.html (80 words)

	AllRefer.com - Frisian language (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Frisian language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages).
		North Frisian is spoken along the North Sea coast of Germany and on the Frisian Islands, and East Frisian is spoken farther inland in NW Germany.
		Frisian is a subject of instruction in the schools of Friesland and also has a literature of its own.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Frisianl.html (247 words)

	North Sea Islands of Germany - Trvael Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Frisian Islands, group of islands, northwestern Europe, in the North Sea, off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany, and extending north from the mouth of the Elbe River along the Jutland Peninsula to Denmark.
		The major portion of the island community, a fishing and resort village, is on the Oberland.
		The island was subsequently refortified by the Nazi government and served as a major German submarine base during World War II.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /north_sea_islands.htm (411 words)

	Frisian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frisian is the language of the historical Frisian people, now an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, with dialects still spoken on the Frisian Islands, and in a few German villages.
		Frisian, most closely related to English, belongs to the Anglo-Frisian group in the western branch of the Germanic languages.
		Frisian was once the prominent tongue along the North Sea coast and on nearby islands, from the present Dutch-Belgian border to the modern German-Danish border.
	www.flw.com /languages/frisian.htm (99 words)

	Frisian languages and pronunciation
		Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken in Germany and the Netherlands.
		North Frisian is spoken in Schleswig-Holstein in the rural district of North Frisia (Nordfriesland).
		Sater Frisian is spoken in the three villages of Ramsloh, Scharrel and Strücklingen in the Community of the Saterland in the Northwest corner of the Lower Saxon County of Cloppenburg.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/frisian.htm (934 words)

	Frisian Islands - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frisian Islands, group of islands, north-western Europe, in the North Sea, off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany, and extending north from...
		Germany consists of three major geographical regions—lowland plain in the north, an area of uplands in the centre, and a mountainous region in the...
		Friesland extends across the Waddenzee to include a number of the West Frisian Islands (Friese Eilanden), the largest of which are Vlieland,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Frisian_Islands.html (126 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Frisian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frisian language FRISIAN LANGUAGE [Frisian language] member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages).
		The province includes several of the West Frisian Islands along the North Sea coast and borders on the IJsselmeer in the west.
		Organisations of Frisian migrants in Amsterdam in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articlesnew/04774.html (496 words)

	Euromosaic - Frisian in Germany: North Frisian ("Friisk")
		Frisian as a subject of instruction at the primary and secondary level can be taken at the teachers training college in Flensburg.
		On the islands of Föhr and Amrum the young generation still uses NF frequently, though insiders are critical of the quality of their language.
		Dutch West Frisian is the "giant" with 400,000 speakers, the two German Frisian groups are small "Davids", with the minuscule East Frisian group at 2000 and the North Frisians at 9000 speakers.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/friso/an/i3/i3.html (2024 words)

	FRISIAN ISLANDS - Online Information article about FRISIAN ISLANDS
		islands of Boschplaat and Rottum, which are practically uninhabited.
		island of eggs," in reference to the large number of sea-birds' eggs which are found there.
		year 1250 the area of the North Frisian Islands was estimated at ro65 sq.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/FRISIAN_ISLANDS.html (1383 words)

	Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		West Frisian is spoken in Friesland, the northern Dutch coastal province, including the Frisian islands of Terschelling and Schiermonnikoog.
		North Frisian is spoken along the west coast of the Schleswig area of Germany and the North Frisian islands.
		The Frisians subsequently became part of the Roman Empire; were later overrun by Angles and Saxons on the way to England, and much later conquered by Charlemagne and converted to Christianity.
	www.writingenglish.com /frisian.htm (284 words)

	West Frisian Islands, Netherlands
		Strung out along the north and northwest coasts of the Netherlands are the West Frisian islands (in Dutch Waddeneilanden) of Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Schiermonnikoog and Rottum, lying at varying distances (between 2km/1-.25mi and 25km/15mi) off the mainland.
		The West Frisian islands are continued to the east by the East Frisian islands off the coast of Germany.
		On the seaward side the West Frisian islands are fringed by young dunes, which tend to be driven steadily eastward by marine currents and westerly winds.
	www.planetware.com /friesland/west-frisian-islands-nl-g-wadd.htm (355 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Frisian Islands at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The East Frisian Islands are comprised of a total of seven small barrier islands, all located close enough to the mainland to be visible to the naked eye.
		Much like in the East Frisian Island, time has almost stood still on the East Frisian mainland, a peninsula bordered by the Netherlands to the west and by the cities of Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg to the east.
		The East Frisians are a hardy bunch, with an uncanny zest for life, their character undoubtedly formed by the challenges of the sea.
	www.epinions.com /content_112499920516 (1975 words)

	Frisian language and culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frisian is spoken in Friesland, a province in the northwest Netherlands and also in the outlying Frisian Islands and in nearby Germany, by about 300 000 speakers.
		Frisian Palindromes Frisian is a language spoken in the north of the Netherlands in the province of Fryslân and in the north of Germany (in very different varieties).
		Frisian Literature, writings in the Frisian language, which is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland and the Frisian Islands.
	www.lonweb.org /link-frisian.htm (2345 words)

	The Frisian Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The two western islands, Vlieland and Terschelling, are accessible from the port city of Harlingen by daily ferries.
		Vlieland (Flylân), the westernmost of the Frisian Waddeneilanden, is 12 km long and on average 2 km wide.
		Terschelling (Skylge in Frisian, but on the island itself "Schylge") is just to the east of Vlieland; it was ceded to Holland in 1615, and returned to Friesland in 1942.
	www.ozoutback.com.au /worldpics/Europe/Netherlands/wadden_1.html (308 words)

	Frisian Islands. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		A chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
		The West Frisian Islands belong to the Netherlands.
		The East Frisian Islands and most of the North Frisian Islands are part of Germany; the other North Frisians are Danish.
	www.bartleby.com /61/15/F0331500.html (110 words)

	Dune dynamics on the East frisian Islands
		The dune chains on the East Frysian Islands form the storm surge protection for the islands.
		The inlets between the islands are deep and wide with a tidal range of 2.5 m allowing enormous amounts of water and sediment in and out of the inlets.
		In the Northern beach area of the island of Langeoog, a peripheral dune wich protects the village and the public water supply, is subject to dune erosion.
	www.coastalguide.org /dune/frisian.html (460 words)

	Encyclopedia
		language of the historical Frisian people, now an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, with dialects still spoken on the Frisian Islands, and in a few German villages.
		Frisian, most closely related to English, belongs to the Anglo-Frisian group in the western branch of the
		Islands and behind them a tidal sea called.
	historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..fr089900.a (432 words)

	frisian
		Frisian is my native language and is generally regarded as the closest language to English that is still spoken.
		West Frisian is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.
		North Frisian is still spoken in a part of Germany, on some of the islands and mainland of the North Sea coast below Denmark.
	www.tiersma.com /FRISIAN/FRISIAN.HTM (2747 words)

	Frysksinnichheid: Frisian Language and Heritage
		Tacitus also mentions the Frisians: in his Germania (chapter 34), written about A.D. These citations are the first recorded evidence of the Frisian people's two-thousand-year history.
		The Frisian people and language are demonstrably older than the Dutch people and their language.
		It is possible these stockbreeders, who called themselves Frisians, came from the nearby sandy grounds of Drenthe, where life had been rendered impossible by sanddrifts.
	www.worldandischool.com /public/1988/december/school-resource13835.asp (490 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : North Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Marine chart Click on the area of interest and zoom in.
		Its name originates from its relationship to the land of the Frisians.
		They live directly to the south of the North Sea, and to the west of the East Sea (Oostzee, the Baltic Sea), the former South Sea (Zuiderzee, today's IJsselmeer) and the today reclaimed Middle Sea (Middelzee).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /North_Sea (550 words)

	Frisian
		Frisian, or more precisely West Frisian, is spoken in the Netherlands, in the northern province of Friesland, including the West Frisian Islands.
		Another dialect, North Frisian, is spoken in the northern German province of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark, and on the North Frisian Islands to the West.
		In many ways, Frisian is the most closely related language to English.
	members.fortunecity.com /mikecolley/langnum/frisian.html (139 words)

	Frisian Islands - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Today, Foehr, one of the Frisian Islands, is a model of green-friendly electricity...
		Ecology; June 1, 1998; Morrison, Lloyd W. on the large, unsurveyed islands in the region are persistent...
		distribution ecology of ants on the Frisian islands.
	www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:FrisianI (292 words)

	Satellite images of the Frisian islands.
		Images of the Frisian islands, made by Landsat7 and Aster satellites.
		The resolution of Aster is 15 m, the resolution of Landsat7 is 30 m (but it has also a panchromatic channel with 15 m resolution).
		These islands do not belong to the Dutch Frisian islands, but are the first German islands.
	www.npoc.nl /EN-version/gallery/FrisianIslands.html (84 words)

	Frisian Fonts, Frisian OCR, Frisian Reference, Frisian Software - Mac, Frisian Software - Windows, Frisian System,
		Frisian is spoken in northern Holland, mainly in the Netherlands, in the northermost province of Friesland (capital: Leeuwarden), which includes the outlying West Frisian Islands.
		There are also about 10,000 speakers, known as North Frisians, in Germany, in the northermost province of Schleswig-Holstein, which borders Denmark, and on the adjacent North Frisian Islands to the west.
		They are names of Frisian immigrants who are still living, a proof of the fact that literary art among the Frisian immigrants did not come to early fruition.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Frisian.htm (232 words)

	Frisian Water Dog
		A native to the Dutch Frisian Islands, the Frisian Water Dog has been known for centuries and is thought to be descended from the Otterhound.
		Tough, hardy, and solid, the Frisian Water Dog is a fine hunter of water game, especially otter.
		However, because the otter is a protected species in many countries, the Frisian Water Dog is used for all types of work.
	www.furrycritter.com /resources/dogs/Frisian_Water_Dog.htm (219 words)

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