Emo of Friesland
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Emo of Friesland was a Frisian
scholar, and the earliest foreign student studying at Oxford University whose name has survived. He began his studies at Oxford in 1190.
Frisians
The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany. They are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia, that was a part of Denmark until 1864. They inhabit an area known as Frisia...
scholar, and the earliest foreign student studying at Oxford University whose name has survived. He began his studies at Oxford in 1190.