Friesland

Friesland distinguishes itself from the other eleven Dutch provinces through having its own language, which is also spoken in a minor part of the province of Groningen, to the east. Closely related languages, East Frisian ("Seeltersk", which is different from "East Frisian (Ostfriesisch)", a collection of Low German dialects of East Frisia) and North Frisian, are spoken in the Saterland a ...

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Friesland, Friesland - Distinguishing features, Friesland - Cities, Friesland - Major towns, Friesland - Municipalities

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The number of people living in Cornwall considering themselves primarily Cornish rather than English or British is unknown. Many in Cornwall consider themselves primarily British and then Cornish and use the term British to describe themselves. However many others use Cornish as a description of their ethnic/national identity and this is a phenomenon with a long historical precedent. Many indigenous Cornish also consider themselves to be English. The question of different ethnic groups in the white population of the British Isles is d ...

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Cornish people, Cornish people - Numbers of Cornish, Cornish people - The Cornish in history, Cornish people - Contemporary Reference, Cornish people - Cornish language, Cornish people - Descent, Cornish people - Politics, Cornish people - Religion, Cornish people - Cornish emigration

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Duke William II of Bavaria-Straubing was also count William VI of Holland, count William VI of Hainaut and count William V of Zeeland. He ruled from 1404 to his death in 1417. William II and John, Duke of Burgundy defeated the bishop of Liege at the battle of Othée in 1408. William was not obliged anymore to pay hommage to the bishop of Liege as count of Hainaut. During his reign he had to deal with internal strife within the county of Holland. Lord John of Arkel supported the enemies of the count in Holland. Arkel became ...

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William IV, Prince of Orange, stadtholder of The Netherlands (September 1, 1711 – October 22, 1751), was born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. He was the son of John William Friso of the Frisian branch of the house of Orange-Nassau and a descendant of the brother of William the Silent. After the death of his father, he became at age seven chief executive and military commander of the province of Friesland. On March 25, 1734 he married Princess Anne, d ...

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William III of England (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William III of Orange) was a Dutch aristocrat and a Protestant Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death. Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English, Scottish and Irish Crowns following the Glorious Revolution, during which his uncle and father-in-law, James II, was depos ...

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• William III of England - Early life
• William III of England - Early reign
• William III of England - Glorious Revolution
• William III of England - Revolution Settlement
• William III of England - Rule with Mary II
• William III of England - Later years
• William III of England - Death
• William III of England - Legacy
• William III of England - Style and arms
• William III of England - Ancestry

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Wieringen (population: 8,451 in 2004) is a municipality consisting of the former island of Wieringen in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. There are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer. The municipality covers an area of 212.50 km² (of which 185.73 km² is water) and includes these towns, villages and townships: Dam, De Haukes, De Hoelm, Den Oever, Hippolytushoef, Hollebalg, Noordburen, Oosterklief, Oosterland, Smerp, ...

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• Wieringen - History

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William III of Avesnes (1286 – June 7, 1337) was count William I of Hainaut, count William III of Holland and count William II of Zeeland from 1304 to his death, succeeding his father, John II. Before becoming count, he was defeated by Guy of Namur at the battle on the island of Duiveland in 1304. Guy and duke John II of Brabant then conquered most of Zeeland and Holland, but these territories were recovered again when william became the new count in the same year. William continued the war with Flanders until the peace of Paris i ...

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The British Empire was the world's first global power and the largest empire in history. It was a product of the European Age of Discovery that began with the global maritime empires of Portugal and Spain in the late 15th century. By 1921 the British Empire held sway over a population of about 470–570 million people—roughly a quarter of the world's population—and covered about 14.3 million square miles (more than 37 million km²), almost a third of the world's total land area. Though it has since almost completely disappeared, t ...

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• British Empire - Background: The English and Scottish Empires
• British Empire - The Anglo-Norman Kingdom
• British Empire - Growth of the overseas empire
• British Empire - Henry VIII and the rise of the Royal Navy
• British Empire - The Elizabethan era
• British Empire - The Stuart era
• British Empire - Scottish Empire
• British Empire - Colonization
• British Empire - Free trade and informal empire
• British Empire - British East India Company
• British Empire - Expansion
• British Empire - Collapse
• British Empire - Breakdown of Pax Britannica
• British Empire - Britain and the New Imperialism
• British Empire - British Colonial Policy
• British Empire - Britain and the Scramble for Africa
• British Empire - Home Rule in white-settler colonies
• British Empire - The impact of the First World War
• British Empire - The end of British rule in Ireland
• British Empire - Decolonisation and Decline
• British Empire - Extent
• British Empire - Africa
• British Empire - The Americas and Atlantic
• British Empire - Antarctica
• British Empire - Asia
• British Empire - Europe
• British Empire - Pacific
• British Empire - Extent after World War II
• British Empire - Africa
• British Empire - The Americas and Atlantic
• British Empire - Asia
• British Empire - Europe
• British Empire - Territories Lost by British Empire before 1921
• British Empire - Remaining Overseas Territories
• British Empire - Overseas Territories possessing substantial self-government
• British Empire - Other Overseas Territories
• British Empire - Crown Dependencies in British Isles Outside UK & EU
• British Empire - Personal Unions
• British Empire - Kingdom of England 927 - 1707
• British Empire - Kingdom of Great Britain 1707 - 1801
• British Empire - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801 - 1927
• British Empire - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1927 - present

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Anglo-Saxons is a term that refers to a collection of culturally related Germanic tribes from Angeln. This is a peninsula in the southern part of the province of Schleswig that protrudes into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of Germany. This group of Germanic tribes achieved dominance in southern Britain beginning in the mid-5th century C.E.. From that time until the 9th century, those tribes coalesced into a single people, the Anglo-Saxons, which in turn formed the basis for the modern day English ...

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• Anglo-Saxons - Etymology
• Anglo-Saxons - Origins of the word
• Anglo-Saxons - Use of the term Anglo Saxon today
• Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon Invasions
• Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon conquest controversy
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon culture
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon architecture
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon art
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon language
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon literature
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon religion
• Anglo-Saxons - Timeline from 597 to 1066

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A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb". The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps o ...

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• Flood - Main causes
• Flood - Flood defenses planning and management
• Flood - Significant modern floods
• Flood - Prevention

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Batenburgers. A radical Anabaptist sect, led by Jan van Batenburg, which flourished briefly in the 1530s in the aftermath of the Münster Rebellion. Batenburgers - Jan van Batenburg. Jan van Batenburg was born around 1495, the bastard son of a nobleman from Gelderland, and became mayor of a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel. At some point in time - it is unknown when or why - he fell out with the local Habsburg-Burgundian authorities, was exiled, and lost his property. Van Batenburg would thenceforth ...

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• Batenburgers - Jan van Batenburg
• Batenburgers - Bocholt Meeting
• Batenburgers - Beliefs
• Batenburgers - Leadership
• Batenburgers - Closing stages

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Bourtange is a Dutch star fort and village in the Westerwolde region of the province of Groningen. The fortifications were initially built during the Eighty Years' War when William of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen which was controlled by the Spaniards. This road follows a sandy ridge (tange) through the marshes. Later, around 1594, Bourtange became part of the fortifications on the border between the northern provinces (Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe) and Germany. In 1851 the fort was ...

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The Cornish are a Celtic ethnic group primarily found in Cornwall. Cornish people - Numbers of Cornish. The number of people living in Cornwall considering themselves primarily Cornish rather than English or British is unknown. Many in Cornwall consider themselves primarily British and then Cornish and use the term British to describe themselves. However many others use Cornish as a description of their ethnic/national identity and this is a phenomenon with a long historical precedent. Many indigenous Corni ...

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• Cornish people - Numbers of Cornish
• Cornish people - The Cornish in history
• Cornish people - Contemporary Reference
• Cornish people - Cornish language
• Cornish people - Descent
• Cornish people - Politics
• Cornish people - Religion
• Cornish people - Cornish emigration

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Wulfram of Sens, Saint Wulfram is also known as Wulfram of Fontenelle. He lived from about 640 to March 20, 703, (though the years vary according to the authority, from birth in about 630, to death between 700 and 720). His life was recorded by the monk, Jonas of Fontenelle, eleven years after he died. However, nowadays, there seems to be little consensus about the precise dates of most events in his life and subsequently. There are churches dedicated to him in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Ovingdean, Sussex and Abbeville, in the French département of Somme. Thi ...

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• Wulfram of Sens - Early life
• Wulfram of Sens - The mission in Friesland
• Wulfram of Sens - His death and after

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The Zuider Zee (pronounced [ˈzaɪdə(r) zeɪ], Dutch: Zuiderzee, pronounced [ˈzœydɚzeː]) was a shallow inlet of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km inland and at most 50 km wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 meters and a coastline of about 300 km. It covered 5,000 square km (2,000 square miles). Its name means "southern sea" in Dutch, indicating that the origin of the na ...

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• Zuider Zee - History and disasters
• Zuider Zee - Geography and development

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The idea that humans existed before Adam, which is known as the Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Preadamism, has a long history, probably having its origins in early pagan responses to Jewish and Christian claims regarding the origins of the human race. Advocates are known as PreAdamites as are the humans that are supposed to have existed before Adam. The first known debate took place between Theophilus of Antioch and an Egyptian pagan Apollonius, who argued that the world was 153,075 years old. Figures such as this occur regularly in Greek and Roman literature, as do the clai ...

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This article deals with the culture of the Netherlands. To get to know Netherlands' current popular culture and society, it's best to read the lyrics of a very popular song by Lange Frans & Baas B that apparently reflects the feelings of many people in the Netherlands: Het land van... ("The country of..."). It mentions several aspects of typical Dutch culture. One of them is an annual event called fietsvierdaagse. Culture of the Netherlands - Architecture. The first significa ...

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• Culture of the Netherlands - Architecture
• Culture of the Netherlands - Art
• Culture of the Netherlands - Graphic arts
• Culture of the Netherlands - Museums
• Culture of the Netherlands - Nature
• Culture of the Netherlands - Painting
• Culture of the Netherlands - Comics
• Culture of the Netherlands - Theatre
• Culture of the Netherlands - Cabaret
• Culture of the Netherlands - Film
• Culture of the Netherlands - Actors
• Culture of the Netherlands - Films
• Culture of the Netherlands - Directors
• Culture of the Netherlands - Movie theaters
• Culture of the Netherlands - Music of the Netherlands
• Culture of the Netherlands - Music of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles
• Culture of the Netherlands - Classical music
• Culture of the Netherlands - Orchestras
• Culture of the Netherlands - Popular music
• Culture of the Netherlands - Dance
• Culture of the Netherlands - Publishing
• Culture of the Netherlands - Newspapers
• Culture of the Netherlands - Magazines
• Culture of the Netherlands - National library
• Culture of the Netherlands - Food
• Culture of the Netherlands - Language
• Culture of the Netherlands - Religion

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A unisex name, also known as an epicene name, is a given name that is often given to either a male or a female. Some countries, however, require that a given name be gender-specific (see German name). This list does not cover names in cultures where the names are often not gender specific, which is common in many cultures. For example, some African tribes have unisex names, and so do cultures which use names which are derived from proper ...

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• Unisex name - List of names that can be unisex
• Unisex name - A
• Unisex name - B
• Unisex name - C
• Unisex name - D
• Unisex name - E
• Unisex name - F
• Unisex name - G
• Unisex name - H
• Unisex name - I
• Unisex name - J
• Unisex name - K
• Unisex name - L
• Unisex name - M
• Unisex name - N
• Unisex name - P
• Unisex name - R
• Unisex name - S
• Unisex name - T
• Unisex name - V
• Unisex name - Y
• Unisex name - Z

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Under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain, the region was part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands, which also includes most of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and some land of France and Germany. In 1568 the Eighty Years' War started after the entire population had been condemned to death by the Holy See and confirmed by the king, and in 1579, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces declared itself independent and formed the Union of Utrecht, which is seen as the foundation of t ...

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Netherlands, Netherlands - Capital, Netherlands - History, Netherlands - Naming conventions, Netherlands - Politics, Netherlands - Provinces, Netherlands - Geography, Netherlands - Economy, Netherlands - Demographics, Netherlands - Culture, Netherlands - Languages, Netherlands - Religion, Netherlands - Miscellaneous topics

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North Holland forms a peninsula between the North Sea and the IJsselmeer. More than half of the province consists of reclaimed land in the form of polders and is below sea level. The island of Texel is also part of North Holland. North Holland makes up one region of the International Organization for Standardization world region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL-NH. ...

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North Holland, North Holland - Geography, North Holland - History, North Holland - Municipalities

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