Upper Saxony

As Upper Saxony is called large parts of the former dominions of the House of Wettin and its inhabitants in the area of ​​today's central Germany.

The name of these territories based on the fact that was after the fall of Henry the Lion of the title of the Duke on ancient dukedom of Saxony on the gender of the Ascanians and been re-assigned later to the House of Wettin. These dynasties conquered the Slavic populated areas in the east and took the sovereign title over "Sachsen" upriver with it. For the original Saxon area in northern Germany, the term " Lower Saxony " came on.

To distinguish between the regions and the concept of art " Upper Saxony " was coined later Lower next to the word that has colloquially but not enforced. So now both the central German inhabitants of the Free State of Saxony itself, as well as outsiders and even the media call colloquially these residents as Saxony. Linguistically, carefully considered, the East Middle German dialects - the Meißenische and Osterländische - part of the Thuringian and Upper Saxon dialect group. Upper Saxony are thus also the Saxon inhabitants of the Vogtland, the Ore Mountains and the Upper Lusatia.

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