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The Battle of Tours in 732 turned out to be a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the...

The heart of western democracies is the assembly, the parliament. Its Germanic origin is the thing, also called ting, ding or þing in...

At the end of the eighth century, under supervision of the wisemen Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the Frisians was codified, as was...

Are these white letters on the wall encrypted gibberish to you? With learning a handful of keywords, you'll have deciphered them in no...

In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt at the village of Appels in the Region Flanders, a figurehead of a ship was...

“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” These were words of the geography teacher at high school...

On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...

If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...

Peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...

Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth over the course of the tenth century, Frisia...

When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...

New York City, the Capitol of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Empire City and Bagdad-on-the-Subway....

‘The path will provide,’ is a familiar saying of hikers on the trail. The flipside of this attitude is you might not have the keenness to...

For those outdoor freaks who consider hiking the mud flats of the Wadden Sea, it is essential to know this is, in fact, not a worldly...

July 1987. The two Frisian bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...

About 2,000 years ago a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-years-old girl, who suffered during her young life from scoliosis, was killed. Her...

The Pesse Canoe. The oldest water vessel of the world was found near the village of Pesse in province Drenthe, the Netherlands. It is...

In 2004, a unique discovery was made at the early-medieval grave field of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave....

When, on a moon-clear night, on top of the dike at Lauwersmeer (Lake Lauwers), you look out over the water, you just might see in the...

The ‘First Lady’ of the village of Grou in province Friesland (the Netherlands), also named Grytsje of Grou. Archaeologists found her in...