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- Old_Saxony abstract "Old Saxony is the original homeland of the Saxons in the northwest corner of modern Germany and roughly corresponds today to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, Westphalia and western Saxony-Anhalt.Adam of Bremen, writing in the 11th century, compared the shape of Old Saxony to a triangle, and estimated from angle to angle the distance was eight days journey. In area Old Saxony was the greatest of the German tribal duchies. It included the entire territory between the lower Elbe and Saale rivers almost to the Rhine. Between the mouths of the Elbe and the Weser it bordered the North Sea. The only parts of the territory which lay across the Elbe were the counties of Holstein and Ditmarsch. The tribal lands were roughly divided into four kindred groups: the Angrians, along the right bank of the Weser; the Westphalians, along the Ems and the Lippe; the Eastphalians, on the left bank of the Weser; and the Nordalbingians, in modern Schleswig-Holstein. But not even with these four tribal groups was the term of tribal division reached. For the Saxon “nation” was really a loose collection of clans of kindred stock. For example, the Nordalbingians alone were divided into lesser groups: Holsteiners, Sturmarii, Bardi, and the men of Ditmarsch.Old Saxony is the place from which most of the raids and later colonisations of Britain were mounted. The region was called "Old Saxony" by the later descendants of Anglo-Saxon migrants to Britain, their new colonies in Wessex and elsewhere were the "New Saxony" or Seaxna. In Germany the Saxon lands were known simply as "Saxony" (Modern German:Sachsen) and only later came to be called Lower Saxony, to differentiate those original Saxon tribal territories from what became the Kingdom of Saxony or Upper Saxony in territories far to the south-east of the original Saxon homeland. The Anglo-Saxon writer Bede claimed in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (731) that Old Saxony was the area between the Elbe, the Weser and the Eider in the north and north west of modern Germany and was a territory beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. It has been claimed that the Old Saxons were composed of an aristocracy of nobles, a free warrior class of distinction and renown, leading freemen united and controlled by ancient custom of kindred and clan. "Social differences were jealously guarded by social prescription. The death penalty was imposed on any man who married above his rank; the marriage of a man below his station was severely condemned; bastardy was not tolerated; intermarriage between Saxons and other Germans was frowned upon; and strangers were hated. So tenaciously did the Saxons cling to their ancient customary law that clear traces of these social survivals persisted in Saxony down through the Middle Ages."".
- Old_Saxony dissolutionYear "0804".
- Old_Saxony thumbnail Saxe_primitive.JPG?width=300.
- Old_Saxony wikiPageID "2420186".
- Old_Saxony wikiPageRevisionID "596308666".
- Old_Saxony capital "Not specified".
- Old_Saxony commonLanguages Old_Saxon.
- Old_Saxony commonName "Old Saxony".
- Old_Saxony continent "Europe".
- Old_Saxony conventionalLongName "Old Saxony".
- Old_Saxony country "Germany".
- Old_Saxony era "Early Middle Ages".
- Old_Saxony eventEnd "End of the Saxon Wars".
- Old_Saxony governmentType "Tribal confederation".
- Old_Saxony hasPhotoCollection Old_Saxony.
- Old_Saxony imageMap "Saxe primitive.JPG".
- Old_Saxony imageMapCaption "Map showing the Saxons' homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers: Ems, Eider and Elbe".
- Old_Saxony imageMapCaption "Src: Edward Augustus Freeman's The historical geography of Europe".
- Old_Saxony imageS "20".
- Old_Saxony p "Germanic peoples".
- Old_Saxony region "Central Europe".
- Old_Saxony s "Duchy of Saxony".
- Old_Saxony status "Kingdom".
- Old_Saxony statusText "Tribal territory of the Saxons".
- Old_Saxony symbolType Coat_of_arms_of_Saxony.
- Old_Saxony yearEnd "804".
- Old_Saxony yearStart "Unknown".
- Old_Saxony subject Category:History_of_Lower_Saxony.
- Old_Saxony subject Category:Saxons.
- Old_Saxony type Country.
- Old_Saxony type Place.
- Old_Saxony type PopulatedPlace.
- Old_Saxony type Wikidata:Q532.
- Old_Saxony type Country.
- Old_Saxony type Place.
- Old_Saxony type Location.
- Old_Saxony comment "Old Saxony is the original homeland of the Saxons in the northwest corner of modern Germany and roughly corresponds today to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, Westphalia and western Saxony-Anhalt.Adam of Bremen, writing in the 11th century, compared the shape of Old Saxony to a triangle, and estimated from angle to angle the distance was eight days journey. In area Old Saxony was the greatest of the German tribal duchies.".
- Old_Saxony label "Antica Sassonia".
- Old_Saxony label "Old Saxony".
- Old_Saxony label "Saxe primitive".
- Old_Saxony sameAs Saxe_primitive.
- Old_Saxony sameAs Antica_Sassonia.
- Old_Saxony sameAs m.07btps.
- Old_Saxony sameAs Q3057629.
- Old_Saxony sameAs Q3057629.
- Old_Saxony wasDerivedFrom Old_Saxony?oldid=596308666.
- Old_Saxony depiction Saxe_primitive.JPG.
- Old_Saxony isPrimaryTopicOf Old_Saxony.
- Old_Saxony name "Old Saxony".