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	Thuringia - LoveToKnow 1911
		Such Thuringian states are Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and the two principalities of Reuss, all of which are separately described.
		The Thuringians are first mentioned by Vegetius Renatus about A.D. 420 when they occupied the district between the Harz Mountains and the Thuringian Forest.
		During the 1 rth century the Thuringians refused to pay tithes to Siegfried, archbishop of Mainz, and this was probably one reason why they joined the rising of the Saxons against the emperor Henry IV.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thuringia (1153 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thuringia
		Thuringians, which at the beginning of the sixth century extended to the Danube, was overthrown in 531 by the Franks.
		Thuringians were absorbed by the Franks, the northern
		Thuringian mark as a defence against the advance of the Slavs.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14712a.htm (805 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		The powerful kingdom of the Thuringians, which at the beginning of the sixth century extended to the Danube, was overthrown in 531 by the Franks.
		The southern Thuringians were absorbed by the Franks, the northern Thuringians adopted the character and racial peculiarities of the Saxons, whose territory closely adjoined theirs.
		In the tenth century the country was seized by the Duke of Saxony, and during the reign of Emperor Otto I it came under the suzerainty of the Margraves of Meissen.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/herbermann/cathen14.html?term=Thuringia (951 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Examination of Thuringian gravesites reveal cranial features which suggest the strong presence of Hunnic women or slaves, perhaps indicating that many Thuringians took Hunnic wives or Hunnic slaves following the collapse of the Hunnic Empire.
		In the 10th century, under the Ottonians, the centre of Thuringian power lay in the northeast, near Erfurt.
		The Thuringian nobility, which had an admixture of Frankish, Thuringian, and Saxon blood, was not as landed as that of Francia.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Thuringians (753 words)

	Thuringia
		The Kingdom of the Thuringians was formed from members of various tribes, including the Angles and the Warns.
		The Franks and the Saxons combined in 531 to defeat the Thuringians.
		The land north of the Harz mountains passed to the Saxons and Thuringia became part of the Kingdom of the Franks.
	www.friedrichfroebel.com /thuringia.html (176 words)

	Thuringia
		Named after the Thuringian people who occupied it around 300 AD, Thuringia came under Frankish domination in the 6th century, forming a part (from 1130 a landgravate) of the subsequent Holy Roman Empire.
		After the extinction of the reigning Liudolfing line of counts in 1247 and the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247-64), the western half became independent under the name of Hesse, never to become a part of Thuringia again.
		The Thuringian states within the German Empire were Saxony-Weimar, Saxony-Meiningen, Saxony-Altenburg, Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the two principalities of Reuß.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thuringia.html (379 words)

	Thuringia - MSN Encarta
		It stretches between the River Pleisse in the east and the Werra in the west, and from the Harz Mountains in the north to the Thuringian Forest and the Frankenwald in the south.
		The Grosser Beerberg, in the Thuringian Forest, is, at 982 m (3,222 ft), the highest point in the state; the lowest is the Unstrut flood plain (114 m/374 ft).
		Noteworthy museums include the Museum of Thuringian Folk Art in Erfurt; the Optics Museum and the Museum of Early Romanticism in Germany, both in Jena; and the Art Collection in Weimar, where the Thuringian State Office for Archaeological Heritage is also located.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553182/Thuringia.html (834 words)

	Hermanafrid - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hermanafrid (Hermenfredus) was the last king of the Thuringians.
		The fall of the Thuringian dynasty became the subject of numerous epic treatments, the best known of which is 'Rerum gestarum saxonicarum libri tres' by Wittukind of Corvey, a Saxon foundation myth written in 967.
		After Huga's death Thiadrich, his son by a concubine is crowned as king, but Amalaberga convinces her husband with the help of the warrior Iring that it is really her who should inherit the kingdom.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hermanafrid (736 words)

	Turingii Thuringii Tribe Portal
		The Thuringians enlarged their territory after the defeat of the Alamans [496 AD] by Clovis (from the Latin Chlodovechus or Chlodovoeus, meaning Louis), they came to the Rhine near Utrecht and Xanten (present day Netherlands), reaching “Tongeren” in north-east of present day Belgium.
		It preserved the name of the Thuringians because the area was part of the Thuringian kingdom until its destruction in 531 AD, at which time the Saxons received the northern part of the Thuringian kingdom (Franks took the southern half).
		The Thuringians, or at least a part of them, were destroyed by the victory of the King of the Ripuarian Franks, Theuderic ("Austrasia"), who in 531 at Zuelpich defeated and killed the Thuringian King Hermanafrid.
	www.duerinck.com /turingii.html (4335 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Thuringia - AOL Research & Learn
		The division (1485) of the Wettin lands left most of the Thuringian territories in the hands of the Ernestine branch of the family, which also received the electoral title.
		All the Thuringian territories except Saxe-Meiningen sided with Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.
		The Thuringian states had been members of the German Confederation from 1815; they joined the North German Confederation in 1866 and the German Empire in 1871.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/thuringia/20051207151209990006 (600 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for thuringians
		It is the center of the Thuringian toy industry and is home to a toy museum.
		Also notable are his Thuringian landscapes in tempera and his Norwegian landscapes.
		Johannes or Hans Bach, c.1550-1626, was a Thuringian carpetweaver and a musical performer at festivals.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Thuringians (690 words)

	GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
		These were the Saxons, the Alemanni, the Thuringians, and the Rugians.
		All these tribes in Germany were eventually subjugated by the Franks, the Alemanni in 496 and 505, the Thuringians in 531, the Bavarians at some point after 553, and then finally the Saxons by 804.
		The list of the Kings of the Thuringians is something I have only seen at one source, a historical website.
	www.friesian.com /germania.htm (8697 words)

	VIII. The Merovingians Page 3
		The bishops and priests were not alone in crying out against such atrocities; the barbarians themselves did not always remain indifferent spectators of them, but sometimes took advantage of them to rouse the wrath and warlike ardor of their comrades.
		Our fathers, ye know, gave them hostages to obtain peace; but the Thuringians put to death those hostages in divers ways, and once more falling upon our relatives, took from them all they possessed.
		To this very day doth Hermannfroi fail in his promise, and absolutely refuse to fulfil his engagements: right is on our side; march we against them with the help of God.' Then the Franks, indignant at such atrocities, demanded with one voice to be led into Thuringia.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Nonfiction/History/HistFrance1/HistFrance1C10P3.htm (585 words)

	Northvegr - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology
		There a Thuringian met him and asked him: "Why do you wear so much gold around your lean neck?" The youth answered that he was perishing from hunger, and was seeking a purchaser of his gold ornaments.
		The Thuringians laughed at this bargain with contempt, and the Saxons found it foolish; but the youth said: "Go with me, brave Saxons, and I will show you that my foolishness will be your advantage".
		The Thuringians sent messengers and complained of this, but the Saxons answered that hitherto they had faithfully observed the treaty, and that they had not taken more territory than they had purchased with their gold.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/rydberg/016.php (819 words)

	History of Thuringia
		In her "The Thuringian War", the Frankish queen, Radegund mentions the "household gods".
		In 786 a Thuringian revolt was quelled by the timely death, blinding, and banishment of its leaders.
		Thuringia was originally a small area between Saxony and Franconia with the large Thuringian forest along its southern border.
	members.tripod.com /~FroebelWeb/thuringia/history.html (337 words)

	Thuringia
		The early inhabitants of Thuringia were a German tribe called Hermunduri; about A.D. 420 they became known as Thuringians.
		This monastery, which has become known through a series of much controverted historical works called the "Reinhardsbrunner Annalen", was badly damaged in the Peasants War of 1525 and was turned into a hunting castle in 1543; it now belongs to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
		The war of succession which now broke out raged until 1263, when the branch of the Wettin family that ruled Saxe-Meissen assumed control of Thuringia.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/thuringia.html (949 words)

	BS Foundations chapter 6
		Law-giving was a royal function, and the power to legislate gave Germanic kings a kind of authority that heretofore had been restricted to the emperors.
		Heretofore, Frankish expansion was largely held in check by the Visigoths through their alliance with the Thuringians against the Franks.
		The Thuringians were defeated in a campaign dated 492 or, more likely, 506.
	www.oglethorpe.edu /faculty/~b_smith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter6.htm (18106 words)

	Wikinfo \| Thuringia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Within the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine organized in 1806, some reordering of territories began, confirmed at the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) with the creation of the German Confederation.
		The Thuringian states within the German Empire were Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the two principalities of Reuß.
		Thuringia re-emerged as an political entity in 1920, when the state of Thuringia was established by merging the hereditary territories; only the southernmost parts of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha voted to join Bavaria.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Thuringia (468 words)

	Thuringians - Qwika
		Wald the Woings, Wod the Thuringians, Saeferth the Sycgs, the Swedes by Ongenþeow...
		With the Thuringians I was and with the Throwens, 65...
		They were the Franks, Saxons and Thuringians, and the confederations called Swabians—heirs of the...
	www.qwika.com /find/Thuringians (254 words)

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		There is an admirable simplicity in the Salic and Ripuarian laws, as well as in those of the Alemans, Bavarians, Thuringians, and Frisians.
		The law of the Ripuarian Franks had quite a different spirit;[67] it was contented with negative proofs, and the person) against whom a demand or accusation was brought, might clear himself, in most cases, by swearing, in conjunction with a certain number of witnesses, that he had not committed the crime laid to his charge.
		The number of witnesses who were obliged to swear[68] increased in proportion to the importance of the affair; sometimes it amounted to seventy-two.[69] The laws of the Alemans, Bavarians, Thuringians, Frisians, Saxons, Lombards, and Burgundians were formed on the same plan as those of the Ripuarian.
	www.constitution.org /cm/sol_28.txt (14745 words)

	June 5th
		Having shown from his infancy a remarkable seriousness of character, he was sent, when in his seventh year, to school in the monastery at Exeter.
		A bold proceeding on the part of the bishop sealed the success of Christianity among the Hessians and Thuringians.
		One of the great objects of worship of the former was a venerable oak, of vast magnitude, which stood in the forest at Geismar, near Fritzlar, and which was looked upon, according to the Latin narrative, as dedicated to Jupiter, probably to Woden.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/june/5.htm (2314 words)

	Sahsisk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The sahs, or seax as it was known among the Anglo-Saxons, is the traditional weapon of the Saxon peoples, who earned their name upon the edge of its reputation.
		Hiding their sahs behind their cloaks, the sea people went to meet with the Thuringians to work on a truce.
		There they produced their sahs and, laying waste to the Thuringians, won their homeland.
	www.sahsisk.org /sahsisk_defined.htm (126 words)

	Otto Herzog von Sachsen the Illustrious
		The Germanic Thuringians appeared after about AD 350 and were conquered by the Huns in the second quarter of the 5th century; but by 500 they had established a large kingdom stretching from the Harz mountains to the Danube.
		As a result of the defeat of their king, Irminfrid, at Burgscheidungen on the Unstrut River by the Frankish kings Theodoric I and Chlotar I in 531, their territory was reduced to the Harz mountains and Thuringian Forest region and was governed by Frankish dukes.
		In 908 the Thuringian March (frontier district), set up by Charlemagne against the Slavs, was seized by Otto, duke of Saxony, whose son, Henry I, duke and German king, halted a Magyar invasion of Thuringia at Riade in 933 and strengthened the defenses of the region.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7173.htm (419 words)

	Old Saxon, Frisian, Bavarian, Thuringian, and Early Anglo-Saxon (DBA II/73)
		Back in Europe the Saxons and the Thuringians resisted the "new" Roman Empire that was being forged by the iron fist of the Franks, Charles the Great, or Charlemagne.
		The Thurigers or Thuringians were a Germanic people who lived in the area of the Elbe river and who traced their origin to a confederation of Hermundurian, Varini and Angle tribes.
		In 430 AD, they fell under the sway of the Huns, but after the death of Atilla in 453 AD, the Thuringians were able to form their own kingdom.
	fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/II73.html (1372 words)

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	www.ancestorguide.com /find.cgi?terms=THURINGIANS (389 words)

	Freistaat Thüringen - Zest for life
		We Thuringians are not only diligent workers – we also know how to have fun.
		We Thuringians place great importance on the quality of day-to-day life and the simple joy of living.
		After all, one of the premier Thuringian traditions is our hospitality.
	www.thueringen.de /en/thuer/zestforlive/content.html (539 words)

	Northvegr - Angliad
		The Thuringians were rulers of the land they had come to, and the Saxons had to fight them for a long time before they could gain possession of them.
		While still in their ships in the harbour, out of which the Thuringians could not drive them, they decided to negotiate about the matter, and the Thuringians told the Saxons that if they would refrain from plunder and rapine, they could remain to buy what they needed and sell all they could.
		The Thuringians sent messengers complaining at this, but the Saxons replied that they had taken no more territory than they had purchased with their gold.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/angliad/009.php (919 words)

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