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unusual facts about East Frisian



Friesland

They are East Frisian (Seeltersk, which is different from East Frisian (Ostfriesisch) and is spoken in the Saterland, and a collection of Low German dialects of East Frisia) and North Frisian, spoken in North Friesland.

Gronings dialect

Some linguists classify Gronings to North Low Saxon, to which also East Frisian belongs.


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Battle of Detern

In the course of the battle an East Frisian peasant army under Focko Ukena and Sibet of Rüstringen defeated the Oldenburg troops called by Chieftain Ocko II tom Brok to assist him, the Archbishop of Bremen and the counts of Hoya, Diepholz and Tecklenburg, who had besieged Detern.

Burkhard Christoph von Münnich

Münnich was born at Neuenhuntorf in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in the military family of Anton Günther Mönnich (since 1688 von Münnich, an east-Frisian nobility).

Edzard I, Count of East Frisia

Edzard's rule was characterized by his energetic approach against his opponents, the East Frisian leaders Hero Oomkens from Harlingerland and Edo Wiemken from Jever, whom he quickly managed to subdue.

Frisian language

Saterland Frisian (frs), or East Frisian language, spoken in Lower Saxony, Germany

Gronings dialect

Other linguists categorize all Gronings-East Frisian dialects as North Low Saxon.

Saterland Frisian language

The last remaining living remnant of Old East Frisian is an Ems Frisian dialect called Sater Frisian or Saterlandic (its native name being Seeltersk), which is spoken in the Saterland area in the former State of Oldenburg, to the south of East Frisia proper.

Steindamm

A station on the Wangerooge Island Railway, the East Frisian island of Wangerooge off the northwestern coast of Germany