Definition of Ostsiedlung. Meaning of Ostsiedlung. Synonyms of Ostsiedlung

- Ostsiedlung (German pronunciation: [ˈɔstˌziːdlʊŋ], lit. 'East settlement') is the term for the Early Medieval and High Medieval migration of Germanic...
- settlers began migrating to Pomerania in a process later termed the Ostsiedlung. The local nobles and rulers encouraged the settlement in order to strengthen...
- (primarily Germanic people) during the Ostsiedlung in the Early Middle Ages and High Middle Ages. The consequences of Ostsiedlung would be long lasting with the...
- players in the political system of the Holy Roman Empire. As the result of Ostsiedlung, less po****ted regions of Central Europe (i.e. sp****ly po****ted border...
- language of the courts. An important development in this period was the Ostsiedlung, the eastward expansion of German settlement beyond the Elbe-Saale line...
- 12th and 13th centuries, Catholic German traders and crusaders (see Ostsiedlung) began settling in the eastern Baltic territories. The Baltic Germans...
- century was also a period of large-scale German immigration, during the Ostsiedlung, often encouraged by the Přemyslid kings. The Germans po****ted towns...
- Swabians (German: Schwaben pronounced [ˈʃvaːbn̩] , singular Schwabe) are a Germanic-speaking people who are native to the ethnocultural and linguistic...
- Slavic settlement by the Wends in the so-called Germania Slavica prior to Ostsiedlung. The term for the junker dominated East was thus Ostelbien or East Elbia...
- German princes encouraged German settlement to the south and east (Ostsiedlung). Members of the Hanseatic League, mostly north German towns, prospered...