Frisia

Proper noun

Frisia

1. (historical) A coastal geographical region in Western Europe, along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including the present-day province of Frisia; see below) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
   • Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]1878, Philip Smith, The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries, page 519
2. Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
   • The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave...1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166
   • The three areas populated by Frisians today are the Dutch province of Frisia (West-Frisia), the German landscape East-Frisia […], and the German district North-Frisia […].2005, Carl Skutsch, Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 470