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	Frisian Islands - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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 (1096 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 islands are low-lying and are separated from the mainland by shallows.
		The chief occupations of the Frisians are fishing, raising sheep and cattle, and farming (mainly potatoes).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577999/Frisian_Islands.html (198 words)

	ooBdoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Frisia (West Frisian: Fryslân; North Frisian: Fraschlönj, Freesklöön, Freeskluin, Fresklun, and Friislön’; Saterfrisian (East Frisian): Fräislound; East Frisian Low Saxon: Freesland; Gronings: Fraislaand; German and Dutch: Friesland; Danish: Frisland) is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea, i.e.
		The portions of North Frisia within the German state of Schleswig-Holstein are part of the district of Nordfriesland and stretch along the coast, and including also the coastal islands from the Eider River to the border of Denmark in the north.
		The Frisian islands of the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark are the leftovers of the dunes of flooded lands.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Frisia (998 words)

	North Frisian Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The North Frisian Islands are a group of islands in the Wadden Sea, a part of the North Sea, off the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and Jutland, Denmark.
		The German-ruled islands are in the traditional region of North Frisia and are part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park and the Kreis (district) of Nordfriesland.
		Pellworm (Mooring North Frisian: Pälweerm) and the peninsula of Nordstrand (Mooring: Nordströön) are the remains of the submerged island of Strand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Frisian_Islands (966 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)

	Search Results for "Frisian Islands"
		...North Frisian Islands and is connected by a dam with the mainland; the two main towns are Westerland, a popular seaside resort, and Kampen.
		It includes the East Frisian Islands and is separated in the west from the Netherlands by the Dollart, an inlet of the...
		Flanked on the west by the North Sea and on the east by the Baltic Sea,...
	bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Frisian+Islands (297 words)

	Frisian Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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 (263 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Frisian
		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).
		Frisian Islands FRISIAN ISLANDS [Frisian Islands], chain of low-lying islands, off the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, in the North Sea.
		The province includes several of the West Frisian Islands along the North Sea coast and borders on the IJsselmeer in the west.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Frisian (624 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)

	North Frisian in Germany
		The North Frisian language is one of the indigenous languages in the German "Land" of Schleswig-Holstein and is spoken in the rural district of North Frisia (Kreis Nordfriesland) on the west coast just south of the Dano-German border including the North Frisian islands.
		Frisian is traditionally an oral language and it was not until the beginning of the 19th century that Frisian started to be used as a written medium.
		Frisian is taught in 2 grammar schools (in Niebüll in the classes 5 and 6, and in Wyk on the island Föhr in the classes 5 and 6 as well as in the classes 11-13), and in 3 intermediate schools with a total number of 24 lessons.
	www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_northfrisian_in_germany.htm (4239 words)

	Euromosaic - Frisian in Germany: North Frisian ("Friisk")
		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.
		North Frisian, perhaps because of the strong internal dialect differences, has not been so unified, and the East Frisians have adopted the orthography of their Dutch Frisian neighbors.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/friso/an/i3/i3.html (2024 words)

	North Frisian Islands biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The North Frisian Islands are a group of islands in the Wadden Sea, a part of the North Sea, off the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
		Pellworm and Nordstrand are the remains of the submerged island of Strand.
		The main town of this sunken island was Rungholt, thought to be the largest town in the surrounding area, but totally destroyed and submerged by a storm in 1362.
	north-frisian-islands.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (402 words)

	Writing English - Proofreading and Copyediting Services
		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)

	Frisian Islands - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	Frisia
		The portions of Frisia within the state of Schleswig-Holstein are called Nordfriesland and stretch along the coast, and including also the coastal islands islands from the River Eider to the border of Denmark in the north.
		The West Frisian Islands[?], the East Frisian Islands and previously noted North Frisian Islands stretch along the entirety of the Frisian coast.
		A half million Frisians of Friesland or Fryslan province in the Netherlands speak the Frisian language.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Frisia.html (188 words)

	Frisian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	OHCHR: Frisian () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Frisian (Western) 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.
		Western Frisian is not intelligible with Eastern and Northern Frisian of Germany.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/fri.htm (1523 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)

	FRISIAN ISLANDS - Online Information article about FRISIAN ISLANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	The World of Theodor Storm.
		The dykemaster's Frisian longhouse could already be seen from afar, for it stood on a high earthwork beside the tallest tree in the village, a mighty ash.
		They reflect the North Frisian closeness to both the land and the sea, of days long gone when whaling was a major local industry and when farming brought immense wealth and prosperity to parts of the region.
		No visit to North Friesland is complete without a visit to the many beautiful churches on the islands and on the mainland, the rich interiors of which reflect the local traditions and cultures of the Frisian people at their best.
	www.theodorstorm.co.uk /world/world.htm (2492 words)

	Germany Travel Info \| Asia Travel Europe
		The longest distance from north to south as the crow flies is 876 kilometers, from west to east 640 kilometers.
		From north to south Germany is divided into five regions with different topographical features: the North German Plain, the Central Upland Range, the terrace panorama of the southwest, the Alpine foothills in the south and the Bavarian Alps.
		The main islands in the North Sea are the East Frisian Islands, among them Borkum and Norderney, the North Frisian Islands of Amrum, Föhr and Sylt (and the Halligen), as well as Helgoland in the Helgoland Bight.
	www.asiatravel.com /germany/germanyinfo.html (1279 words)

	Germany - North German Lowland
		The North German Lowland is a part of the Great European Plain that sweeps across Europe from the Pyrenees in France to the Ural Mountains in Russia.
		The mud flats between the islands and the shore are exposed at very low tides and are crossed by innumerable channels varying in size from those cut by small creeks to those serving as the estuaries of the Elbe and Weser rivers.
		Although the East Frisian Islands are strung along the coast in a nearly straight line, the North Frisian Islands are irregularly shaped and are haphazardly positioned.
	countrystudies.us /germany/75.htm (496 words)

	North Sea Coast, Germany
		The German North Sea coast, some 300km/185mi long as the crow flies, is divided into two parts, the East Frisian and the North Frisian area, by the estuary of the Elbe.
		The estuaries of the East Frisian rivers are protected from the inflow of sea water by siele, gate-like sluices that close automatically at high tide.
		Off the North Frisian coast are the Halligen, islands that are relics of an expanse of fenland not protected by dikes.
	www.planetware.com /germany/north-sea-coast-d-sh-nsc.htm (241 words)

	Frisian is an old language at the south coast of the North Sea.
		Frisian is an old language at the south coast of the North Sea.
		Frisian is a language spoken along the south coast of the North Sea.
		West Frisian in the Dutch province of Fryslân (formerly Friesland), East Frisian in the community Saterland (Seelterlound) in Germany and North Frisian also in Germany along the west coast of Schleswig and a number of islands including Helgoland.
	www.geocities.com /athens/atrium/6641/english.htm (107 words)

	The North Frisians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In about the year 700, the Frisians from the present East Friesland and from West Friesland in the Netherlands settled first on the North Frisian islands of Sild, Föhr, Amrum and Heligoland.
		In September 1998, a programme was broadcast with a duration of one hour about Frisian history and culture, and also a feature in Frisian, which was co-financed by the media foundation "Medienstiftung Schleswig-Holstein".
		North Frisian local newspapers and some regional newspapers publish a few articles in Frisian.
	www.minority2000.net /Gr-4/t3gb4.htm (250 words)

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