Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
They are closely related to the Dutch, Northern Germans, and the English and speak Frisian languages divided by geographical regions.
[2] Therefore the moniker 'Frisian' is (when used for the speakers of all three Frisian language) a linguistic (and to some extent, cultural) concept, not a political one.
[3] The New Amsterdam area was chiefly explored by Jonas Bronk, who led a group of settlers from North Frisia, and one of the city's boroughs was later named The Bronx after him.
[4][5][6] Many North-Frisian settlers were refugees of the Burchardi flood of 1634 which had destroyed the wealthy island of Strand.