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Central Bavarian. Central or Middle Bavarian form a subgroup of Bavarian dialects in large parts of Austria and the German state of Bavaria along the Danube river, on the northern side of the Eastern Alps. They are spoken in the ' Old Bavarian ' regions of Upper Bavaria (with Munich (see Munich German)), Lower Bavaria and in the adjacent parts ...
History of Bavaria. The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion in the Holy Roman Empire to its status as an independent kingdom and finally as a large Bundesland (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Franconia (German: Franken [ˈfʁaŋkn̩] ⓘ; East Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect (German: Ostfränkisch). Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian ...
Central Europe as a region connected to Western civilisation since the foundation of the local states and churches, including countries such as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kingdom of Croatia, Holy Roman Empire, later German Empire and the Habsburg monarchy, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Crown of Bohemia.
Bavarian is commonly considered to be a dialect of German, [6] [7] [8] but some sources classify it as a separate language: the International Organization for Standardization has assigned a unique ISO 639-3 language code (bar), [9] and the UNESCO lists Bavarian in the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger since 2009; however, the classification of Bavarian as an individual language has been ...
Kingdom of Bavaria. The Kingdom of Bavaria (German: Königreich Bayern [ˈkøːnɪkˌʁaɪ̯ç ˈbajɛɐ̯n]; Bavarian: Kinereich Bayern [ˈkɪnəˌraɪ̯x ˈb̥ajɛɐ̯n]; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918.
Nuremberg (/ ˈ nj ʊər ə m b ɜːr ɡ / NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk] ⓘ; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants [3] make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Bavarians. Bavarians (Bavarian: Boarn/Bayern; Standard German: Bayern) 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 ("Old Bavaria"), roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century.