Frize department

Map of the departments in today's Benelux region

Département de la Frize (German and Dutch: Friesland , West Frisian: Fryslân ) is a former French department that existed from 1810 to 1814.

history

The Dutch province of Friesland was divided into the Ems and IJssel departments when the Batavian Republic was founded in 1795 . After an uprising in 1801, this division was withdrawn and Friesland was reunified. With the annexation of the Kingdom of Holland , into which the Batavian Republic had been converted in 1806, Friesland came to France in 1810 as the Département de la Frize .

After Napoleon's defeat, Friesland became a province in the newly created United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814 .

structure

The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Leeuwarden . It was divided into three arrondissements :

Arrondissement	Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice
Leeuwarden	Bergum , Buitenpost , Dokkum , Dronrijp , Franeker , Hallum (Ferwerderadeel), Harlingen , Holwerd , Leeuwarden (2 cantons)
Heerenveen	Akkrum , Beetsterzwaag , Heerenveen and Oldeberkoop ( Ooststellingwerf ),
Sneek	Bolsward , Hindeloopen , Lemmer , Rauwerd , Sneek

The department had an area of ​​2,798 square kilometers and in 1812 a total of 175,400 inhabitants.

See also

• French departments in Central Europe from 1792 to 1814

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A geographic-historical manual, first department, Osnabrück: Johann Gottfried Kißling, 1813, p. 235 ( Google Books )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Almanach Impérial 1812 , Paris, p. 404 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )