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	Saxony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saxony borders, from the east and clockwise, on Poland, the Czech Republic and the German states of Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg.
		In 1137 Saxony was passed to the Welfen dynasty, who were descendants (1) of Wulfhild Billung, eldest daughter of the last Billung duke, and (2) of the daughter of Lothar of Supplinburg.
		After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic and was the scene of Stresseman's overthrow of the KPD/SPD led government in 1923, during the Nazi era and under Soviet occupation.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Saxony (1115 words)

	Encyclopedia: Saxony
		Kamenz (Lusatian: Kamjenc) is a Kreis (district) in the north-east of Saxony, Germany.
		The Vogtlandkreis is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic.
		After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic and was the scene of Gustav Stresemann's overthrow of the KPD/SPD led government in 1923, during the Nazi era and under Soviet occupation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saxony (5081 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saxony
		This old Duchy of Saxony, as it is called in distinction from the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, became the centre of the opposition of the German princes to the imperial power during the era of the Franconian or Salian emperors.
		Saxony is the most densely peopled state of the empire, and indeed of all Europe; the reason is the very large immigration on account of the development of manufactures.
		The Vicariate Apostolic of Saxony, and the Prefecture Apostolic of Saxon Upper Lusatia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13497b.htm (7923 words)

	Saxony. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The land of the Saxons, Saxony was in Frankish times roughly the area in NW Germany between the Elbe and Ems rivers; it also included part of S Jutland.
		The ducal title of Saxony went to Bernard of Anhalt, a younger son of Albert the Bear of Brandenburg and founder of the Ascanian line of Saxon dukes.
		Duke Maurice of Saxony, a grandson of Albert and a Protestant, received the electoral title in the 16th cent.; it remained in the Albertine branch until the dissolution (1806) of the Holy Roman Empire.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sa/Saxony.html (1068 words)

	Saxon people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dukes of Saxony became kings (Henry I, the Fowler, 919) and later the first Emperors (Henry's son, Otto I, the Great) of Germany during the 10th century, but lost this position in 1024.
		The region in southeasten Germany known as the Kingdom of Saxony between 1806 to 1918 and the Free State of Saxony after 1990, was not a traditional homeland of the Saxon peoples.
		The rulers of this area acquired control of the Duchy of Saxony in 1423 and eventually applied the name Saxony to the whole of their kingdom.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Saxons (590 words)

	Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saxony then was Lower Saxony, corresponding of the modern German state of that name (capital Hanover).
		In 1485 Saxony was divided into the Electorate of Saxony, mainly in Thuringia (central Germany), under Ernest, son of the previous elector, and the Duchy of Saxony (Upper Saxony).
		Both Saxony and the Saxon duchies were part of the German Confederation (1815-1866) and then of the North German Confederation (1866-1871), which was annexed by Prussia to found modern Germany.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /s/saxony.html (829 words)

	Duchy_of_Saxony
		Duke Henry I (Henry the Fowler) of Saxony was elected German
		whose descendants held the duchy until the extinction of the male line in 1106.
		Saxony went to Bernard of Anhalt, a younger son of Albert the Bear of Brandenburg and founder of the Ascanian line
	michaeljohnbenze.net /GermanHistory/Duchy_of_Saxony.html (213 words)

	AllRefer.com - Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It is bordered on the east by Brandenburg, on the west by Lower Saxony, and in the south by Thuringia and Saxony.
		Historically the region was a part of the duchy of Saxony until the 12th cent., when it split into several units.
		As constituted in 1947 under Soviet military occupation, Saxony-Anhalt consisted, roughly, of the former state of Anhalt, the former Prussian province of Saxony, and several small territories of the former state of Brunswick.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SaxonyAn.html (284 words)

	Bresse Coat of Arms
		Westphalia was a part of the old duchy of Saxony, which included most of the land between the Rhine and the Elbe between the 9th and 12th centuries.
		Lower Saxony, which includes most of the land between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers and is composed of the regions of Brunswick, or Braunschweig, and Lueneburg, was originally part of the old duchy of Saxony.
		The duchy of Saxony was in existence between the 9th and 12th centuries.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/bresse-coat-arms.htm (2025 words)

	Kingdoms of Germany - Saxony
		Saxony emerges as one of the more powerful stem duchies in East Francia (kings of Germany), once the formal split is made between East and West Franks.
		The title of the duchy of Saxony had passed to the Margraves of Meissen, a march county between the original Saxon lands and Poland.
		The newer lands around the Lower Elbe became Lower Saxony, and this is where the name survived until the end of the German Empire.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GermanySaxons.htm (525 words)

	About Saxony Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1453, the duchy of Saxony attained the title of an Electorate and became a leading power of the Reich.
		Saxony is Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner, Gret Palucca, Ludwig Guttler, Stefanie Hertel and 'Die Prinzen'.
		Saxony is a symbol of centuries of craftsmanship and inventive genius.
	www.saxonytourism.com /aboutsaxony.htm (895 words)

	Saxony Rulers, Dresden, Germany - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Saxony is divided between Saxe-Lauenberg (in the west) and Saxe-Wittenberg (in the east).
		Later Saxony was situated east and south of the original duchy.
		Saxe Weimar became Saxony's principle duchy, and was eventually elevated to a grand duchy.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /dresden_saxony_rulers.htm (604 words)

	Duchy Of Saxony Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Anglo-Saxons came from the latter parts of the Duchy of Saxony to England.
		After gaining also the Duchy of Bavaria, Henry's realm covers more than two thirds of Germany from the Alps to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, making him the mightiest ruler in central Europe.
		1180 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, strips his cousin Henry the Lion of his duchies of Saxony and Bavaria, but leaves him the small duchies of Brunswick and Lüneburg, giving Saxony to the Ascanians who were based further east, near the Elbe.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Duchy_of_Saxony (1026 words)

	Medieval_Duchy_Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This old Duchy of Saxony, as it is called in distinction from the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, became the centre of the
		Lower Saxony is still in existence for the districts on the lower Elbe, that is, the northern part of the present Province of
		Saxony, Hanover, Hamburg, etc., in distinction from Upper Saxony, that is, the present Kingdom of Saxony, and
	michaeljohnbenze.net /GermanHistory/Medieval_Duchy_Saxony.html (932 words)

	Heinrich the Lion (1129/30-1195) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Heinrich the Lion was born in Swabia at Ravensburg, the Welfs already had the duchies of Bavaria and Saxony at their disposal, a concentration of power which was created through historical marriage politics.
		With the rise to power of the still minor-aged Heinrich the Lion in Saxony and Bavaria in 1139, the emperor's opposition to the strong position of the Welfs in the Empire increased.
		However, the two duchies of Bavaria and Saxony, which were denied to his father in 1138, were returned to Heinrich the Lion in 1142.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/HeinrichLion/HeinrichLion.html (868 words)

	Westphalia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Westphalia first appears as the name of the western third of the duchy of Saxony in the 10th cent.
		Unlike Eastphalia, the eastern third of the duchy of Saxony, Westphalia survived the breakup (1180) of the Saxon duchy as a regional concept, although it lost political unity.
		Among the temporal fiefs that emerged from the breakup of Saxony were the counties of Lippe, Ravensberg, and Mark.
	www.bartleby.com /65/we/Westphal.html (543 words)

	Leipzig-Dresden Railway Line - Early history of Saxony, Dresden and Leipzig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dresden became the capital of the Electorate of Saxony in 1485, displacing Meissen, the former principal centre.
		The defeat of Saxony and the part it played in supporting Napoleon meant that the Kingdom was unable to grasp the political initiative, but its important business figures were astute enough to make up for this lack of political strength through an economic expansion built around the railway line from Leipzig to Dresden.
		Saxony, throughout the power struggle backed the wrong throne, and drifted into a political backwater, although its economic growth was among the strongest in Germany.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /%7Ejjlace/part1.html (711 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Saxony, 1789-1815
		The population of Saxony in 1810 is given at 2,276,000.
		Saxony joined in a number of French Campaigns, amongst others the campaigns against Prussia and Russia in 1807, against Austria in 1809 and against Russia in 1812.
		In 1813/1815, Prussia aimed at annexing entire Saxony; in the end, Prussia gained the northern half of Saxony (with 2/3 of the population), and in compensation, a part of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Posen.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/saxony17891815.html (1032 words)

	Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1137 Saxony was passed to the Welfen dynasty.
		Saxony Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries
		After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic, during the Nazi GermanyNazi era and under Soviet occupation.
	www.infothis.com /find/Saxony (1084 words)

	Regents of Saxony
		Saxony was originally a tribal duchy in north western Germany.
		All lands belonging to the house of Wettin would thereafter be called Saxony, and when the landgraviate of Thuringia had been added 1440 had a new large and significant Saxon state had been created outside the area of the original Saxon tribal duchy.
		Saxony was partitioned 1485 between the brothers Ernst and Albrecht who had been co-regents since 1464.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/germany/saxony.htm (266 words)

	Rulers of Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		List of Dukes, Electors, and Kings of Saxony, 880-1918The original Duchy of Saxony was in Northern Germany, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of Lower Saxony.
		The original Duchy of Saxony was in Northern Germany, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of Lower Saxony.
		In 1356 was issued the Golden Bull, which raised the Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of Elector.
	www.termsdefined.net /ru/rulers-of-saxony.html (489 words)

	Saxony -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The margraves of Meissen acquired (13th-14th cent.) the larger parts of Thuringia and of Lower Lusatia and the intervening territories, and in 1423 Margrave Frederick the Warlike added Electoral Saxony; he became (1425) Elector Frederick I.
		Travel: The Complete Guide To Saxony; Saxony has spent the last 12 years throwing off the yoke of its Communist past.
		Saxony - showcase model case for the east.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/saxony_history.asp (1405 words)

	Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
		The Duchy of Saxe-Weimar was established in 1566.
		In 1741, the Duchies of Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Weimar were united in a personal union and the duke was styled the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach.
		On April 21, 1815, the duchy was elevated to a grand duchy.
	home.att.net /~david.danner/militaria/saxeweimar.htm (1693 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
		In 1910 the grand duchy had 417,166 inhabitants; in 1905 it had a population of 388,095, including 18,049 Catholics (5 per cent), 367,789 Protestants, and 1412 Jews.
		Before the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the territories constituting the present grand duchy were, ecclesiastically speaking, under the Archdiocese of Mainz, the coadjutor bishop residing at Erfurt exercising jurisdiction in the name of the archbishop.
		Today (1911) the grand duchy contains altogether 14 parishes and a number of curacies and chaplaincies, 21 priests, and about 30 churches, all of which are subject to the deanery of Geisa.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13495b.htm (1328 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Henry III the Lion of Saxony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But his main effort was directed toward expanding the Duchy of Saxony, especially in the lands beyond the Elbe.
		The lands of the two bishoprics of Cologne and Paderborn were given to the Archbishop of Cologne as the new Duchy of Westphalia; the eastern part of Saxony was given as a fief to a son of Albert the Bear of Brandenburg.
		The Duchy of Bavaria was granted to an ally of Frederick's, Otto von Wittelsbach.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/44.htm (1232 words)

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		This was a very large duchy that had in the 15th century broken into two unequal parts known as the Albertine and the Ernestine.
		The Albertine duchy was the one that produced an Elector.
		Both were duchies, but the Albertine became known as the Electorate of Saxony, while the "Duchy of Saxony" was the Ernestine.
	www.idbsu.edu /courses/reformation/germany/states.shtml (1216 words)

	Duchy of Saxony -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Click link for more info and facts about 804) 804 The Duchy of Saxony, consisting of Engern, Westfalia, Eastfalia and Northalbingia (today (Click link for more info and facts about Schleswig-Holstein) Schleswig-Holstein) becomes part of the Franconian Empire.
		(Click link for more info and facts about 852) 852 Liudolf, Duke in Saxony, descendant of Widukind and first of the (Click link for more info and facts about Ottonian) Ottonian dynasty, founds the monastery of (Click link for more info and facts about Gandersheim) Gandersheim.
		(Click link for more info and facts about 919) 919 Henry of Saxony ((Click link for more info and facts about Henry I the Fowler) Henry I the Fowler) is elected King of the Germans by the assembled Saxon and Frankish princes in (Click link for more info and facts about Fritzlar) Fritzlar.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Du/Duchy_of_Saxony.htm (1417 words)

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