Transylvanian Saxons
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The Transylvanian Saxons are a Germanic people who settled in Transylvania in various waves from the 12th-century Ostsiedlung to the mid-19th century. They were mostly Luxembourgish, from the Low Coun
Iacobeni (German: Jakobsdorf, archaically in Romanian also known as Iacășdorf), an example of a fortified rural Transylvanian Saxon community established since the High Middle Ages and situated in Sibiu County (German: Kreis Hermannstadt).
Șeica Mică (German: Kleinschelken), another example of a fortified rural Transylvanian Saxon community established since the High Middle Ages and situated in Sibiu County (German: Kreis Hermannstadt).
Medieval fortified Evangelical Lutheran church at Dealu Frumos (German: Schönberg) in Sibiu County (German: Kreis Hermannstadt)
Medieval fortified Evangelical Lutheran church at Archita (German: Arkeden), Mureș County (German: Mieresch)
Ostsiedlung
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Ostsiedlung is the term for the early medieval and high medieval migration of ethnic Germans and Germanization of the areas populated by Slavic, Baltic and Uralic peoples; the most settled area is som
Transylvanian Saxons
…The Transylvanian Saxons are a Germanic people who settled in Transylvania in various waves from the 12th-century Ostsiedlung to the mid-19th century. They were mostly Luxembourgish, from the Low Countries as well as Alsace in modern day France, but also from other parts of…
The division of the Carolingian Empire, Treaty of Verdun, 843
West-Slavic peoples in Europe until 1125 (yellow borders). Prussia (identified as Pruzzia) has not been a Slavic, but Baltic land.
Timber-framed house in Schöna
German eastward expansion 895–1400