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Ostsiedlung (German pronunciation: [ˈɔstˌziːdlʊŋ], lit. 'East settlement') is the term for the
Early Medieval and High
Medieval migration of Germanic...
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settlers began migrating to
Pomerania in a
process later termed the
Ostsiedlung. The
local nobles and
rulers encouraged the
settlement in
order to strengthen...
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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...
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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...
- (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...
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German princes encouraged German settlement to the
south and east (
Ostsiedlung).
Members of the
Hanseatic League,
mostly north German towns, prospered...
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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...
- Holy
Roman Empire,
controlled the area. In the
course of the
medieval Ostsiedlung, the
Ukrani were
Christianized and
Germanized by Saxons, who founded...
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Swabians (German:
Schwaben pronounced [ˈʃvaːbn̩] ,
singular Schwabe) are a Germanic-speaking
people who are
native to the
ethnocultural and linguistic...