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Saxons

The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony (Latin: Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like them, speakers of West Germanic dialects, including both the Franks and Thuringians to the…

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The name of the Saxons

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Saxons

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related to The Saxons and the Arnulfings · 89
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related to Merovingian period · 71
Saxons → According, Anglo-Saxons, Austrasia, Avenches, Berthoald, Britain, Centuries, Childebert, Childebert II, Chlothar, Chlothar II, Chlothar's, Clothar, Clovis, Dagobert, Denmark, Deutz, During, England, Frankish
related to The name of the Saxons · 43
Saxons → Angles, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxons, At, Bede, Britain, Carolingian, Deacon, Denmark, Deutschen, Dutch, England, English, European, France, Frisians, Germanic-speaking, Germans, Germany, However
related to The Duchy of Saxony · 36
Saxons → Abodrites, Carolingian, Duchy, Duke Henry, During, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Fowler, German, Germanised, Germany, Great, Henry, Henry's, High Middle Ages, Lion, Lombardy, Lower Saxony, March, Meissen, Niedersachsen
related to Charlemagne's Saxon Wars · 28
Saxons → Abotrites, Charlemagne, Charlemagne's, Christianity, Christianized Saxons, Christians, Deutz, Einhard, Frankish, Hispania, Hungary, In, Irminsul, Kingdom, Neustria, Nordalbingian Saxons, Ostholstein, People's Crusade, Plön, Rhine
related to Saxon raiders (3rd and 4th centuries) · 27
Saxons → AD, After Ptolemy, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Britain, Carausius, Chamavi, Constantius, Constantius Chlorus, Eutropius, Franci, Frankish, Franks, Frisians, Gaul, However, In, Laterculus Veronensis, Latin, North Sea, Rhine
related to Possible mention in Ptolemy (2nd century AD) · 24
Saxons → According, Aviones, Axones, Elbe, Elbe's, Even, For, Geographia, Germania, He, However, Liccardo, Mathias Springer, Northern Europe, On, Ptolemy, Ptolemy's, Ptolemy's Geographia, Ptolemy's Maps, Saxon
related to Language · 22
Saxons → CE, Charlemagne, Frankish, Heliand, Latin, Low German, Middle Ages, Middle Low German, North Sea Germanic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old High German, Old Low Franconian, Old Saxon, Old Saxon Genesis, Our, Over, Runic, Saxon, West Germanic
related to 5th century · 20
Saxons → Angles, Between, Bordeaux, Britain, Britons, Brittia, Byzantine Empire, Denmark Procopius, Frisians, Gaul, In, It, Procopius, Rhine, Saintonge, Saxon, Sidonius Apollinaris, The, Warini, Writing
related to Social structure · 17
Saxons → According, Angria, Bede, Each Gau, Eastphalia, Gaue, Holstein, In, Latinised, Nithard, Northumbrian, Saxon, Saxonum, The, These, They, Westphalia

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saxon saxony century frankish later early franks also roman rhine north old german english charlemagne britain name germany empire angles

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Saxonsis aLaterculus Veronensis from about 314 AD0.90text
Bedeinstance oflater writers in the 8th century0.80text
the author of the Ravenna Cosmography referred to the Saxons of Saxony in Germany as theinstance oflater writers in the 8th century0.80text
Mathias Springer have proposed that this may be a misspelling of the tribe that Tacitus in his Germania called Avionesinstance ofSome scholars0.80text
Wariniinstance ofcould also sometimes have come under other designations0.80text
Frisians or Thuringiansinstance ofcould also sometimes have come under other designations0.80text
the Abodritesinstance ofas well as Slavic tributaries0.80text
the Wendsinstance ofas well as Slavic tributaries0.80text
often provided troops to their Carolingian overlordsinstance ofas well as Slavic tributaries0.80text
Fuldainstance ofthe notable ones being a result of the literary output and wide influence of Saxon monasteries0.80text
Corveyinstance ofthe notable ones being a result of the literary output and wide influence of Saxon monasteries0.80text
Verdeninstance ofthe notable ones being a result of the literary output and wide influence of Saxon monasteries0.80text

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