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13 hours ago · Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of 18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium.
- Landtag of The Free State of Saxony
The Landtag of Saxony (German: Sächsischer Landtag), also...
- Old Saxony
The Anglo-Saxon writer Bede claimed in his work Historia...
- History of Saxony
His son Otto I (936–973) was the first non-Carolingian...
- Flag
Overview. The civil bicolour flag of white over green was...
- Duchy of Saxony
The Duchy of Saxony (Low German: Hartogdom Sassen, German:...
- Landtag of The Free State of Saxony
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2 days ago · Leipzig (/ ˈ l aɪ p s ɪ ɡ,-s ɪ x / LYPE-sig, -sikh, German: [ˈlaɪptsɪç] ⓘ; Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony, and with a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023, it is the eighth-most populous city in Germany as well as the largest city in the territory of the former East Germany ...
5 days ago · The Low German dialects spoken in the Netherlands are mostly referred to as Low Saxon, those spoken in northwestern Germany (Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, and Saxony-Anhalt west of the Elbe) as either Low German or Low Saxon, and those spoken in northeastern Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg ...
2 days ago · Originally, the Germanic-speaking peoples shared a metrical and poetic form, alliterative verse, which is attested in very similar forms in Old Saxon, Old High German and Old English, and in a modified form in Old Norse. Alliterative verse is not attested in the small extant Gothic corpus.
2 days ago · The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
1 day ago · Hesse [a] or Hessia [b] ( German: Hessen [ˈhɛsn̩] ⓘ ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen ), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel.
1 day ago · The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic. This process principally occurred from the mid-fifth to early seventh centuries, following the end of Roman rule in ...
