Dorestad was an early medieval emporium, located in the present-day province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, close to the modern-day town of Wijk bij Duurstede. It flourished during the 8th to early 9t
Dorestad in the network of main Northern European trade routes in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800)
Denier of Lothair I, struck in Dorestad (DORESTATVS) c. 851–855.
The Dorestad Fibula (c. 775–800) was found in a well. It is currently in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwestern Europe on the coastal regions of northern Netherlands, north-western Germany and southwestern Denmark. They inhabit an area known as Frisia
Dorestad
…The township was established at the base of the former Roman fortress of Levefanum in the 7th century. The Frankish Carolingian Empire and the Frisians fought for control of the territory, until the Franks gained control of the Frisian Coast in 719. Dorestad flourished between the 7th century and the…
North Frisian woman in Föhr.
Frisians in traditional costumes in Oldsum.