Saxons
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The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony (Latin: Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany, between the lower Rhine and Elbe rivers. Many of their neighbours were, like them, speakers of West Germanic dialects, including both the Franks and Thuringians to the south
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Sahson | |
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.svg) The Stem Duchy of Saxony | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Old Saxony, Frisia, England, Normandy | |
| Languages | |
| Old Saxon | |
| Religion | |
| Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Anglo-Saxons, Angles, Frisii, Jutes, Franks |
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