Editing Frisia (section)

=== Roman era ===
The people, later to be known as [[Frisii]], began settling in Frisia in the 6th century BC. According to [[Pliny the Elder]], in Roman times, the Frisians (or rather their close neighbours, the [[Chauci]]) lived on [[terp]]s, man-made hills.<ref name="Bos2001">{{cite book|location=Tübingen|publisher=Niemeyer|editor1-last=Munske|editor1-first=Horst H.|editor2-last=Århammar|editor2-first=Nils R.|title=Handbuch des Friesischen = Handbook of Frisian studies|year=2001|isbn=9783484730489|chapter=Archaeological evidence pertaining to the Frisians in the Netherlands|pages=487–492|last=Bos|first=Jurjen M.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0nx-GUm-0OIC&pg=PA480|access-date=2009-01-11}}{{rp|page=480}}</ref> According to other sources, the Frisians lived along a broader expanse of the North Sea (or "Frisian Sea") coast.{{efn|A more extensive, though outdated review of Frisia in Roman times is {{cite journal|location=Northfield, MN|publisher=The Classical Association of the Middle West and South|journal=The Classical Journal|issn=0009-8353|volume=48|issue=4|date=Jan 1953|last=Springer|first=Lawrence A.|title=Rome's Contact with the Frisians|pages=109–111|jstor=3292503}}}} At this time, Frisia comprised the present-day provinces of [[Friesland]], [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]], [[North Holland]] and parts of [[South Holland]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tacitus |url=http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann4.shtml |title=Annales IV |language=la}}</ref>