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Welcome to the East Frisian embassy! Here, we present some information about East Frisia to all friends of East Frisian living and culture. And we offer a home to all "Butenostfreesen" (East Frisians abroad) world wide!
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Our most famous offering is the East Frisian identity card available only at this webpage. For questions and answers about East Frisia habe a look at our forum! We will be glad to help you.


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De Böskupp van Oostfreesland wünske en pläseerelk Karstied!     Comment?    Dec 25, 2000
"Ostfriesland" became featured
The article "Ostfriesland" (East Frisia) became a featured article in the German Wikipedia on 30th October 2008. The entry on the list of featured articles is due to a group of active authors, always ready to extend the East Frisia related articles in Wikipedia. Congratulations to the authors! We encourage all of you to contribute to this knowledge base about East Frisia in Wikipedia, be it in English, German, East Frisian or whatsoever.     Comment?    Dec 01, 2008
German ministry says: East Frisians are Frisians
As the West Frisian station "Omrop Fryslân" reported today, the German ministry of the interior confirmed that East Frisians are part of the Frisian ethnic group.     Read more.../Comment?    Mar 08, 2000
Newspaper: "East Frisians are no Frisians"
East Frisias most read newspaper, Ostfriesen-Zeitung dropped a brick last weekend and wrote "East Frisians are no Frisians", because, and here we go: "Anglo-Saxons are also no Saxons".     Read more.../Comment?    Feb 03, 2008
East Frisian embassy again multilingual
The East Frisian embassy offers again the content of their webpage in three different languages: Plattdüsk, German and English.     Read more.../Comment?    Jan 23, 2008
Ten thousand East Frisian identity cards
At 21th of January 2008 the East Frisian embassy delivered the 10,000th East Frisian identity card. Thereby, a new milestone is reached only five years after the delivery of the 1000th identity card.     Read more.../Comment?    Jan 23, 2008
Europäische Sprachencharta: Niedersachsen mit groben Mängeln
Hannover. Ein Expertenkomitee des Europarates hat Deutschland bereist, um sich über den Stand der Umsetzung der Europäischen Charta der Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen zu informieren. Besonderes Augenmerk richteten die Experten dabei auf das Niederdeutsche in Niedersachsen. Ein Treffen mit Vertretern der Niederdeutsch Sprechenden beim Niedersächsischen Heimatbund in Hannover ergab, dass das Plattdeutsche in Niedersachsen zu wenig gefördert wird, um die Sprache langfristig erhalten zu können.     Read more.../Comment?    Nov 16, 2007

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