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Administrative seat: Augsburg Situated in southwestern Bavaria, Swabia was bordered by Austria to the south, by the Bavarian provinces of Upper Bavaria to the east and Middle Franconia to the north, and by the state of Württemberg to the west. Swabia's name derives from that of the Suebi, a Germanic people who, with the Alemanni, occupied the upper Rhine and upper Danube region in the third century A.D. and then spread south to Lake Constance and east to the Lech River. Known first as Alemannia, the region was called Swabia from the eleventh century onward. Swabia, along with Franconia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Lotharingia, was one of the five great Stamm (tribal) duchies of early medieval Germany. Most of the prosperous towns of Swabia were free imperial cities (i.e., virtually independent republics) by 1300. Among them were Augsburg, Ulm, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Reutlingen, Rauensburg, and Rottweil. They formed a series of powerful leagues. The transfer of many small ecclesiastical and feudal holdings from Swabia to Baden, Württemberg, and Bavaria was largely the work of Napoleon I and was effected at the diet of Regensburg, 1801-1803. The people of Swabia speak Swabian (a variety of Alemannic), one of three main German dialects in Bavaria. (en-US)

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

Termini più generici

• Baviera (Germania : State)

Termini più specifici

• Augsburg (Germania)
• Türkheim (Baviera, Germania)