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Capital city: Magdeburg The name Saxony referred to three different territories in Germany: 1) before A.D. 1180, to an extensive far-north German region including Holstein but lying mainly west and southwest of the estuary and lower course of the Elbe River; 2) between 1180 and 1423, to two much smaller, widely separated areas, one on the right (east) bank of the lower Elbe southeast of Holstein, the other on the middle Elbe; and 3) between 1423 and 1952, to a larger central German region with its principal axis farther up the Elbe and including the territory from Thuringia to Lusatia, bordering Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). The Prussian province of Saxony was located in central Germany. It was bordered by the states of Saxony to the south, Thuringia to the southwest, and Brunswick to the west, and by the Prussian provinces of Hanover to the northwest and Brandenburg to the east. Anhalt formed an enclave within Saxon territory. The province was constituted in 1816 from the northern portions of the kingdom of Saxony and from several other Prussian holdings. The Prussian province of Saxony comprised three administrative subunits, Erfurt, Magdeburg, and Merseburg. (en-US)

Fonte

The Times Atlas of World History. Edited by Geofrey Barraclough. Third Edition. Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond, 1989.

Termini più generici

• Prussia (Germania : State)

Termini più specifici

• Magdeburg (Germania : campo di concentramento)(generico)