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Saxony, German Sachsen, Historical region, former state, and recreated state, Germany. Before 1180 the name was applied to the territory conquered c. ad 200–700 by the Germanic Saxon tribe. They were conquered and Christianized by Charlemagne in the late 8th century. In the mid-9th century Saxony became part of the German kingdom of the Franks.
13 giu 2024 · Saxony - Germanic, Prussian, Reunification: The state of Saxony was re-created in the process of the reunification of East Germany with West Germany in 1990 from the former East German Bezirke (districts) of Dresden, Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt), and Leipzig, along with a small part of Cottbus district. The East German districts had themselves been created in 1952 from historic Saxony ...
Saxony ( German: Sachsen [ˌzaksn̩] ( listen); Upper Sorbian: Sakska ), officially the Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen [ˈfʁaɪ̯ʃtaːt ˈzaksn̩], Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska ), is one of 16 states of Germany. It is in the southeast of the country, north of Czech Republic. To the east of Saxony is Poland.
Lower Saxony is the only German federal state that covers both mountainous and maritime areas. The sandy, boggy northern half of the state backs onto the sea, covering the East Frisian Islands, and is almost entirely flat except for some gentle hills around the Bremen geestland. The Elbe River separates Lower Saxony from Hamburg, Schleswig ...
Introducing Saxony. Saxony is one of the 16 German federal states, bordering Poland and the Czech Republic as well as the German states of Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. With 18,400 square kilometers (7,100 square miles), Saxony is one of the smaller German states. The region's largest cities are Leipzig (580,000 inhabitants ...
Hanover was in the British zone of occupation of Germany and became part of the new state (Land) of Lower Saxony in 1946. Today Hanover is a vice-president city of Mayors for Peace, an international mayoral organisation mobilising cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by 2020.
3 feb 2021 · Saxony, Germany’s eastern-most state, wows with cities and landscapes that could be straight out of a fairytale. From the architectural masterpieces that are scattered around Dresden to the cutting-edge art galleries occupying former industrial sites in Leipzig and the bizarre rock formations of the Saxon Switzerland national park – here are the top 10 things to see and do in Saxony.
