County of East Frisia

County of East-Frisia
Graafschap Oost-Friesland
1464–1744
Coat of arms
Coat of arms
East Frisia around 1600, by Ubbo Emmius
East Frisia around 1600, by Ubbo Emmius
CapitalEmden
Common languagesEast Frisian Low Saxon, Dutch, German
Religion
Lutheran in the east, Calvinism in the west
GovernmentCounty
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Established
1464
• Disestablished
1744
Area
c. 1800[1]1,800 km2 (690 sq mi)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
East Frisian chieftains
Frisian freedom
Kingdom of Prussia

The County of East Frisia (Frisian: Greefskip Eastfryslân; Dutch: Graafschap Oost-Friesland) was a county (though ruled by a prince after 1662) in the region of East Frisia in the northwest of the present-day German state of Lower Saxony.

  1. ^ Köbler, Gerhard, Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder. Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Munich, 1995, pp. 451–52

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