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Nordfriesland (literally "Northern Frisia") is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Schleswig-Flensburg and Dithmarschen, the North Sea and the Danish county of South Jutland.

1 History

There has always been a strong influence of the sea in the region. In medieval times storm tides made life in Nordfriesland quite dangerous. Only in modern times the loss of land and lives could be stopped by building solid dikes. Many villages that once were, are now at the bottom of the sea. The best-known example is the small seaport of Rungholt, which was destroyed by a storm tide in 1362. The island of Strand vanished in another disastrous storm in 1634Events Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published Curacao captured by the Dutch Treaty of Polianovska First meeting of the Academie francaise The witchcraft affair at Loudun Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin Opening of Covent Garden: subsequent to this storm tide there were many small islets instead of Strand.

Until 1864Events January March January 21 Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign starts. February 27 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. March 1- Alejandro Mon Menendez takes office as Prime Minist, Nordfriesland was a part of Denmark. It is still a multilingualA multilingual person or a polyglot is someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages. A bilingual person can speak two languages fluently, a trilingual three. Noted polyglots Record holders The world's most prolific living polyglot is Zia district: there are people speaking High GermanHigh German (in German, Hochdeutsch please note that Hochdeutsch is also used to refered to today's standard German) is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Luxembourg (as well as in neighbouri, Low German, FrisianThis page covers the West Frisian language, spoken in the Netherlands. For other Frisian languages see Frisian language (disambiguation). Frisian (varyingly Frysk Frasch Fresk or Friisk is a language spoken by a small ethnic group living in the northweste and DanishDanish is one of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. History Most Danish words are derived from the Old Norse language, with new words formed by compounding. A large percentage of Danish word. The Frisian language exists in nine slightly different dialects, but it is mainly used by older persons. After becoming German three districts were established: Südtondern in the north, HusumHusum is the name of at least two towns, one in Germany and one in Sweden. Husum, Sweden Husum, Germany. in the centre, and Eiderstedt in the south. In 1970 the three districts were merged.