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Saxony has a long history as a duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire (the Electorate of Saxony), and finally as a kingdom (the Kingdom of Saxony).In 1918, after Germany's defeat in World War I, its monarchy was overthrown and a republican form of government was established under the current name.
To avoid confusion, later writers in the eighth century such as Bede and the author of the Ravenna Cosmography referred to the Saxons of Saxony in Germany as the "old Saxons", and their country as "old Saxony", and this differentiation is still often used by historians today when discussing this period.
The Kingdom of Saxony was the fifth state of the German Empire in area and third in population; in 1905 the average population per square mile was 778.8. Saxony was the most densely peopled state of the empire, and indeed of all Europe; the reason was the very large immigration on account of the development of manufactures.
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Saxony (wine region), the wine region of Saxony; Saxony Hotel, in Miami Beach, Florida, US; Saxony Mill, building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockville, Connecticut, US; Sachsen bei Ansbach, town in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany; Saxony yarn, a fine 3-ply yarn spun from the wool of merino sheep
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Upper Saxon evolved as a new variety in the course of the medieval German Ostsiedlung (eastern colonisation) from about 1100 onwards. Settlers descending from the stem duchies of Saxony, Franconia, and Bavaria, as well as Thuringia and Flanders, moved into the Margravate of Meissen between the Elbe and Saale rivers, [4] formerly populated by Polabian Slavs.
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