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Friesland, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 298
Housing Units (2000): 114
Land area (2000): 1.027194 sq. miles (2.660420 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.027194 sq. miles (2.660420 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28000
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.588986 N, 89.067871 W
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Friesland

Friesland (; ) or Frisia is a province in the northwest of the Netherlands. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of Flevoland, northeast of North Holland, and south of the North Sea. In 2010, the province had a population of 646,000 and a total area of .

The capital and seat of the provincial government is the city of Leeuwarden , a city with 91,817 inhabitants. Since 2009, John Jorritsma is the King's Commissioner in the province. A coalition of the Labour Party, the Christian Democratic Appeal, and the Frisian National Party forms the executive branch. The province is divided into 24 municipalities.

The area of the province was once part of the ancient, larger region of Frisia. The official languages of Friesland are West Lauwers Frisian and Dutch.

Friesland (district)

Friesland is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Wesermarsch, Ammerland, Leer and Wittmund, and by the North Sea. The city of Wilhelmshaven is enclosed by, but not part of the district.

Friesland (disambiguation)

Friesland is a province of the Netherlands.

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Usage examples of "friesland".

On February 26, 1782, the northern province of Friesland voted to instruct its delegates in the States-General to move formally to receive John Adams as minister from the United States.

And the first Mophead will be cycling to Friesland tomorrow, by way of the dike?

A certain Cornelius Rijpma, president of the Sea Polder board in Leeuwarden, in Friesland, is on record as saying some months ago that the dykes in his area consist of nothing more than layers of sand and that if a big storm comes they are certain to break.

Antonius Deusing (1612-1666), physician to the Stadholder of Friesland, published in 1656 a treatise on this subject.

It was the Nieuw Friesland Military Academy answer, and it was the right answer this time beyond question.

Miss Rohde (Old English Herbals) says: 'It is interesting to find that Turner identifies the Herba Britannica of Dioscorides and Pliny (famed for having cured the soldiers of Julius Caesar of scurvy in the Rhine country) with Polygonum bistorta, which he observed plentifully in Friesland, the scene of Pliny's observations.