Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany
Skunk@jlai.lu 1 week agoAlso, the saxons never lived in the area of the German federal state of Saxony.
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Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany
Skunk@jlai.lu 1 week agoAlso, the saxons never lived in the area of the German federal state of Saxony.
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Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 week ago
Guess what? The modern state of Saxony (aka Upper Saxony, Obersachsen) is not even contiguous with the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).
Although to be somewhat fair they are connected by Sachsen-Anhalt. And basically all of northern Germany was at one point called Saxony (“Old Saxony”, Altesachsen), at least by the Romans.
Of course history is funny; Upper Saxony wasn’t part of the medieval Duchy of Saxony that followed, despite eventually taking the name.
(I’m mostly posting this because I wanted to figure it all out)