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1 day ago · Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.
1 day ago · History of Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
22 hours ago · e. The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century.
May 24, 2024 · One of the most powerful of the Saxon dukes was Henry the Lion, who ruled both Saxony and Bavaria in the mid-12th Century. In 1180, the Bishops of Cologne won control of a sizable amount of this land. Eighty years later, what remained of Saxony was split in two.
May 14, 2024 · king (1836-1854), Saxony. Frederick Augustus II (born May 18, 1797, Dresden, Saxony—died Aug. 9, 1854, the Tirol, Austria) was a reform-minded king of Saxony and nephew of Frederick Augustus I, who favoured German unification but was frightened into a reactionary policy by the revolutions of 1848–49. Frederick Augustus shared the regency ...
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1 day ago · We start with the first: Queen Christina of Saxony. To put her life on context: We rewind the tape to 1471. A Dane army under the Danish king Christian I tries to take over Stockholm with the aim of overthrowing the regime that ruled Sweden and which was led by regent Sten Sture the elder, and reinstate Christian as Swedish king.
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May 9, 2024 · John Frederick (II) (born Jan. 8, 1529, Torgau, Saxony—died May 9, 1595, Steyr, Austria) was an Ernestine duke of Saxony, or Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach, whose attempts to regain the electoral dignity, lost by his father to the rival Albertine branch of the House of Wettin, led to his capture and incarceration until his death.
