The Frisian Islands, also known as the Wadden Islands or the Wadden Sea Islands, form an archipelago at the eastern edge of the North Sea in northwestern Europe, stretching from the northwest of the Netherlands through Germany to the west of Denmark.The islands shield the mudflat region of the Wadden Sea (large parts of which fall dry during low tide) from the North …

The East Frisian Islands (German: Ostfriesische Inseln, West Frisian: Eastfryske eilannen, Saterland Frisian: Aastefräiske Ailounds) are a chain of islands in the North Sea, off the coast of East Frisia in Lower Saxony, Germany.The islands extend for some 90 kilometres (56 mi) from west to east between the mouths of the Ems and Jade / Weser rivers and lie about 3.5 to 10 …

The Frisian (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n /, / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n /) languages are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages; the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian languages group and ...

Faroese (/ ˌ f ɛər oʊ ˈ iː z, ˌ f ær-/ FAIR-oh-EEZ, FARR-; føroyskt mál [ˈføːɹɪst ˈmɔaːl]) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 72,000 Faroe Islanders, around 53,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 23,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark. [clarification needed]It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages ...

Frisia (Dutch: Groter-Friesland, lit. 'Greater Friesland'; German: Frieslande) is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.Stretching along the Wadden Sea, it encompasses the north of the Netherlands and parts of northwestern Germany.The region is traditionally inhabited by the Frisians, a West Germanic ethnic group.

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The word wad is Frisian and Dutch for "mud flat" (Low German and German: Watt, Danish: Vade).The area is typified by extensive tidal mud flats, deeper tidal trenches (tidal creeks) and the islands that are contained within this, a region continually contested by land and sea.. The landscape has been formed for a great part by storm tides in the 10th to 14th centuries, …

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …

Etymology. The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (ouest in French, oest in Catalan, ovest in Italian, oeste in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root *wes reduced from *wes-pero 'evening, night', …

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large domesticated bovines.They are most widespread species of the genus Bos.Adult females are referred to as cows and adult males are referred to as bulls.. Cattle are commonly raised as livestock for meat (beef or veal, see beef cattle), for milk (see dairy cattle), and for hides, which are used to make leather.They are used as riding animals and draft …