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Topic: Friso-Hollandic Wars
Location: Potes Cantabria Spain

Friso-Hollandic Wars

Years: 1256 - 1422

The Friso-Hollandic Wars, also called Frisian-Hollandic Wars, are a series of short medieval wars (ranging from single battles to entire campaigns) consisting of the attempts made by the counts of Holland to conquer the free Frisian territories, which lie to the north and east of their domain.

These wars ware waged off and on from 1256 to 1297, 1324 to 1348, 1396 to 1411, and from 1421 to 1422, although it could be argued that a state of war continues to exist between the County of Holland and the Frisian territories until well after the year 1500.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)