Swabians are a Germanic speaking people who are native to the ethnocultural and linguistic region of Swabia, which is now mostly divided between the modern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in southwestern Germany.
Rutenfest in Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, celebrating the folklore story of "The Seven Swabians" by the Brothers Grimm.
"Swabians, go back to Berlin", Leipzig graffiti
Jakob Fugger
Johannes Kepler
Bavarians are an ethnographic group of Germans of the Bavaria region, a state within Germany. The group's dialect or speech is known as the Bavarian language, native to Altbayern, roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century.
The Oktoberfest in Munich, the most widely known festival of Bavarian culture, held since 1810 (2006 photograph)
Caricature of four "Munich types" (Münchner Charakterköpfe): Highlander (Der Wastl aus dem Oberland "Wastl from the Oberland"), clerk (Gerichtsschreiber "court secretary"), shirker (Invalid in Friedenszeiten "peacetime-invalid"), petty bourgeois (Münchner Hausvater "Munich pater familias"), Julius Adam, Die Gartenlaube (1875).
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Franz Josef Strauß