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Gallery
of the Netherlands. Click the picture to visit this growing database of pictures of Dutch landscapes, townviews, mill's and rivers. (Amateur) photographers daily provide this database of new photographs from all over the country. If you want to have your personal photo of any place in the Netherlands added to this database, just feel free to contact me |
history of friesland history of frisia history of the frisian municipaliti frisian municipalitieses
| Litterature |
| H. T. J. Miedema, " Anglo-Frisian Relations and the Map of Breg and (H)reg, especially in English, Dutch and Frisian Place Names" . NOMINA, 'The Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland', volume 3, pages 78—80, 1979 |
| Go to 'Sources' for more Frisian litterature |
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Wijsvinger
Friesland. Find your hamlet, village or town in
the province of Friesland and the municipality it belongs to. Some extra
information is added. (Site is part of a series of all Dutch provinces:
www.wijsvinger.nl
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| Municipalities of the Dutch province Friesland |
| A brief outline of the Frisian grietenijen (municipalities) Abt. the 7th- century the division of the area of
-nowadays- Friesland was already known. In the 13th century the function of 'grietman' is mentioned for the first time. Grietman being the Frisian name of a functionary which work could be compared with the activities ( roughly said the head of the court and the police/public prosecutor and dike-reeve) of a 'schout'. With the grietmannen, the 'Grietenijen' entered history. In 1498 the Frisian-Saxon region Stellingwerf became a part of the Friesland province. Before that year Stellingwerf had been a 'Independant Farmers Republic' for more than 100 years and before that part of the province of Drenthe (or rather the 'Oversticht', being the name for present-day provinces of Drenthe and Overijssel) 1505 Endiking of the first part of 'het Bildt' (second- and later parts were finished in 1754). In 1579 'het Bildt' was incorporated in the province of Friesland as the 30th grietenij. For genealogists it might be interesting to know that the original colonists of the Bildt endikement originated from the province of Holland (some of Brabant and Zeeland) 1579 Union of Utrecht. From this moment on officially Friesland is divided into 4 'kwartieren': Oostergo, Westergo, Zevenwouden and the 11 Frisian towns. Oostergo, Westergo and Zevenwouden on their turn were divided in 'grietenijen'. 1795 The system of grietenijen was abandoned and
replaced by 'mairies' due to the French occupation of the Netherlands. 1851 The name grietenij was changed into 'gemeente' (municipality) and the grietman became 'burgemeester' (mayor) 1942 The isles of Vlieland and Terschelling become part of Friesland. |
old frisian map old frisian municipalities 1300 map of Friesland
present day Friesland, municipalities, hamlets and small villages in Friesland
| List of the contemporary Frisan municipalities | Find a town, village, hamlet or state on the 1860 map of the province of Friesland |
| For historical information about the province of Friesland and the Frisians (including the North- and Eastfrisians in Germany) go to the Friesland links on the History page. |
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XTRA: two links to the -now- Frisian isles Terschelling and Vlieland. Both isles were part of the province of Noord-Holland, both till 1942 . |
Terschelling |
Vlieland |
Present day frisian municipalities nowadays frisian municipalities
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Explanation of the symbols used in the maps:
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All maps of the
Frisian municipalities of 1860 which I use at this page are scanned
and kindly relinguished to me by Roelof Varkevisser for use at my site.
Roelof's site and the scans on this page can also be found at |
| Map of contemporary municipalities of the province of Friesland |
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Places
and the municipalities they belong / belonged to
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