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The subject of this article was previously also known as Saxony. For other uses, see Saxony (disambiguation)
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Map showing the Saxons' homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers: Ems, Eider, and Elbe
Src: "Freeman's Historical Geographys".
Old Saxony is the original homeland of the Saxons and the place from which their raids and later colonisations of Britannia were mounted. The Anglo-Saxon writer, Bede, claimed in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (731) that Old Saxony was the area between the Elbe, Weser and the Eider in the north and north west of modern Germany and was a territory beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. Saxon "pirates" had been raiding the eastern seaboard of Britannia from here during the 3rd and 4th Centuries (prompting the construction of maritime defences in eastern Britannia called the Saxon Shore) and it is thought that following the collapse of the Roman defences at the Rhine in 407 pressure from population movements in the east forced the Saxons and their neighbouring tribes the Angles and the Jutes to migrate westwards by sea and invade the fertile lowland areas of Britannia. The traditional date for this invasion is 449 and is known as the Adventus Saxonum. This began a vicious 400 year war of occupation and led to the creation of various Saxon kingdoms in Britannia including that of the South Saxons (Sussex), the West Saxons (Wessex) and the East Saxons (Essex) alongside others established by the Angles and the Jutes and are the foundations of the modern English nation.

In 690, two priests called Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair set out from Northumbria to convert their distant kin in Old Saxony to Christianity. It is recorded that at this time Old Saxony was divided into the ancient dioceses of Münster, Osnabrück, and Paderborn. However, by 695 the pagan Saxons had become extremely hostile to the Christian priests and missionaries in their midst and began to suspect that their aim was to convert their over-lord and destroy their temples and religion, which was probably true. Ewald the Fair was quickly murdered, but Ewald the Black they subjected to torture and was torn limb from limb. After which the two bodies were cast into the Rhine. This is understood to have happened on 3 October 695 at a place called Aplerbeck, where a chapel still stands. The two Ewalds are now celebrated in Westphalia as saints.

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Saxony may refer to several Holy Roman Empire era, German Empire or later modern German states in different locations along the Elbe river:

Free State of Saxony, Freistaat Sachsen

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Saxons or Saxon people were a confederation of Old Germanic tribes whose modern-day descendants in northern Germany are considered ethnic Germans while those in the eastern Netherlands are considered to be ethnic Dutch, those in modern Normandy, ethnic French, and those in
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The Britannias was the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the British Isles, consisting of Albion, Hibernia and many smaller islands, originating from a reference from Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) in around 300 BC to the Pretanic (or Britannic) Islands.
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Bede (IPA: /ˈbiːd/) (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: [/beda/])), (c.
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Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (in English: Ecclesiastical History of the English People) is a work in Latin by the Venerable Bede on the history of the Church in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and
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Elbe
Czech: Labe, German: Elbe, Low German: Ilv
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Origin Fulda and Werra
Mouth North Sea
Basin countries Germany
Length 452 km
Source elevation 117 m

Avg. discharge 327 m³/s
Basin area 46,306 km²

The Weser
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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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Saxons or Saxon people were a confederation of Old Germanic tribes whose modern-day descendants in northern Germany are considered ethnic Germans while those in the eastern Netherlands are considered to be ethnic Dutch, those in modern Normandy, ethnic French, and those in
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The Britannias was the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the British Isles, consisting of Albion, Hibernia and many smaller islands, originating from a reference from Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) in around 300 BC to the Pretanic (or Britannic) Islands.
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Saxon Shore Forts is the collective name given to a system of forts (castra) built along the east and south-east coast of what is now England, during the latter centuries of the Roman occupation of Britain, as part of the wider fortification network known of the Saxon
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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Origin Grisons, Switzerland

Basin countries Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands
Length 1,320 km (820 mi)
Source elevation Vorderrhein: approx. 2,600 m (8,500 ft)
Hinterrhein: approx. 2,500 m (8,200 ft)

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Saxons or Saxon people were a confederation of Old Germanic tribes whose modern-day descendants in northern Germany are considered ethnic Germans while those in the eastern Netherlands are considered to be ethnic Dutch, those in modern Normandy, ethnic French, and those in
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The Angles is a modern English word for a Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the cultural ancestor of Angeln, a modern district located in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Jutes, Iuti, or Iutae were a Germanic people who are believed to have originated from Jutland (called Iutum in Latin) in modern Denmark and part of the East Frisian coast.
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The Britannias was the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the British Isles, consisting of Albion, Hibernia and many smaller islands, originating from a reference from Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) in around 300 BC to the Pretanic (or Britannic) Islands.
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Anglo-Saxon is the collective term usually used to describe the ethnically and linguistically related peoples living in the south and east of the island of Great Britain (modern Great Britain/United Kingdom) from around the early 5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066.
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The Britannias was the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the British Isles, consisting of Albion, Hibernia and many smaller islands, originating from a reference from Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) in around 300 BC to the Pretanic (or Britannic) Islands.
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South Saxons were the followers of King Ælle (see Aelle of Sussex) a warlord from Old Saxony in north-western Germany who were among the Anglo-Saxon Dark Age invaders of Britannia at the end of the 5th Century.
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Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West Sussex and East
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Wessex was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that preceded the Kingdom of England. It was named after the West Saxons and was situated in the south and southwest of England. It existed as a kingdom from the 6th century until the emergence of the English state in the 9th century, and
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Wessex was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that preceded the Kingdom of England. It was named after the West Saxons and was situated in the south and southwest of England. It existed as a kingdom from the 6th century until the emergence of the English state in the 9th century, and
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The Kingdom of Essex (Est Seaxna "East Saxons", one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy) was founded around 500 AD and covered the territory currently occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
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Essex

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region East of England
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