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The fortress Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, founded in 1274, the world's largest brick castle and the Teutonic Order's headquarters on the river Nogat.. The medieval German Ostsiedlung (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern ...
With the Red Army's advance and Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945, the ethnic make-up of Central and Eastern and East Central Europe was radically changed, as nearly all Germans were expelled not only from all Soviet conquered German settlement areas across Central and Eastern Europe, but also from former territories of the Reich east of the Oder ...
The Bukovina Germans (German: Bukowinadeutsche or Buchenlanddeutsche, Romanian: Germani bucovineni or nemți bucovineni), also known and referred to as Buchenland Germans, [2] or Bukovinian Germans, [3] are a German ethnic group which settled in Bukovina, a historical region situated at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe, during the modern period. [4]
Vistula Germans History and map settlements by region; The Breyer Map of the German settlements in central Poland; Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe - with focus on Russian Poland and Volhynia; Germans From Russia Heritage Society Focus is on Black Sea and Bessarabia regions but some limited help available for Vistula Germans as well.
Distribution of ethnic Germans in Central/Eastern Europe in 1925, also highlighting German settlements in Bessarabia. With the establishment of the last colony (Hoffnungstal) in 1842, the influx of emigrants from Germany ended. Afterwards, a self-colonisation began by private settlement within the country.
It is considered to be one of the most important early Celtic centres in Central Europe, particularly during the Iron Age Hallstatt culture period. Apart from the fortified citadel, there are extensive remains of settlements and burial areas spanning several centuries. The fortified citadel measures about 300 by 150 m (980 by 490 ft).
The central point shifted several times during the country's eventful history. Today Niederdorla in the state of Thuringia claims to be the most central municipality in Germany. A plaque was erected and a lime tree planted at 51°9′48.15″N 10°26′51.66″E / 51.1633750°N 10.4476833°E / 51.1633750; 10.4476833 after the 1990 ...
In Alsace, in common with much of central Europe, two phases of this period have been identified by archaeologists: the Hallstatt (800 BCE - 480 BCE) and La Tène (480 BCE - 52 BCE). [ 15 ] The Hallstatt is characterized by an increased differentiation in wealth and power among settlements and individuals, continuing trends from the late Bronze ...