Talk:West Friesland (region)

I live in Enkhuizen, but the West-Frisian way it's called is Ekhûze (no N), and not Henkhûzen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.217.107.133 (talk) 19:36, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

There is a discrepency between the municipalities included in this article and those in the description in the article North Holland. Which is correct? -Branddobbe 06:33, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing that, I saw it too but did not know which other municipalities were part of WF, other than vague notions of Alkmaar and Schagen. I took the liberty as well of updating your image. Cwoyte 14:18, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

What's the difference between West-Friesland and Westfriesland? Both articles seem to be describing the same subject, but then each article considers the other article to be a different subject from itself. What's going on? -Branddobbe 04:31, 26 September 2005 (UTC)


 * If you look at number of municipalities you see the difference, West-Friesland is the smaller area, this is more or less province Westflinge of Westfriesland, Westfriesland is big bigger, and once was it was autonomous and at war with Holland, during that war some parts got flooded, that land was lost to the see. Therefore the area was divided in some islands, quite big area of Westflinge was protected by the dykesystem. Later when Westfriesland lost from Holland, the area became a district. Through the century's it lost a bit of is identity because of it's islandic laying. Every area became a bit more it's own. The name became in the end of 19th century more synonymous for the area between the dykesystem. But the culture and language-string remains. A lot historians use Westfriesland as indication for the bigger area and West-Friesland for the area between the dyke systems, this last one is the very active used region name. Dolfy 15:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

west frisian language vs municipalities
Being born and raised and still living in westfriesland I have to something to say about this. In my eyes, the second column in the list of municipalities makes no sense. The westfrisian langage (I didn't even know it existed) must be centuries old. The list of municipalities is new and is constant subject to change.

I, for instance, live in Hoogkarspel. A couple of years (like 25 yrs or so) ago the villages/municipalities Hoogkarspel, Westwoud and Oosterblokker were joined into the new municipality Drechterland. Recently the municipality Venhuizen was added to Drechterland. I hope I made my point clear.

I don't want to make those changes myself because I don't know much about the english wikepedia, but just want to add information through this discussion page.

Josdorpjossie (talk) 12:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with you and I updated the link from West Frisian (language) to West Frisian (dialect), which makes much more sense. And I live in Hoogkarspel too :) Xenan (talk) 13:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Merge
I think West Friesland (historical region) would probably better be merged into this one (and maybe the parenthetic part removed from the name). They are really the same thing as far as I can tell, just in different times. It might make sense to keep them separate if one was a historical region and the other was an officially demarcated modern region, but West Friesland today has no official status and is basically just the name for a part of North Holland that was part of historical West Friesland. CodeCat (talk) 19:05, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The historical region looks much larger and also would have included space under the Zuider Zee, but since they are historically continuous they could well be merged. The region article is a bit stubby and could do with a boost. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:50, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

I have removed a large section of apparent copyright violation that was merged into this article from the "historical region" article. The original source was this page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:26, 22 September 2016 (UTC)