Saxony Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Saxony
During the early Middle Ages, most of today's Saxony was populated withSlavs. Many place names are of Slavic origin (including the names of the major cities Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz), typically ending in -itz or clustering sibilants like 'z' and 'sch' in a way that is difficult to pronounce even for Germans from other regions (one of the most extreme examples may beZitzschewig). A Slavic population has survived in the ethnic group of the Sorbs, consisting of some 20,000 people native to theUpper Lusatiaregion of Eastern Saxony who proudly maintain their own language and traditions. Most Slavs however either moved east or were assimilated by the German-speaking majority since the 12th-century German "East Colonisation". The population of Saxony is mostly unrelated to the ancient tribe
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