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Transylvanian Saxons
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Vinony files it under 12th-century establishments in Europe, Ethnic German groups in Romania and German diaspora in Europe.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Romania mainly transylvania counties sib
- c. 11,400 – c. 13,000 ( 2011 )
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- ethnic group
- Part of
- Germans of Romania
- Demonym
- Sași
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- Category:Transylvanian Saxon people
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Encyclopedic overview
The Transylvanian Saxons are a Germanic people who settled in Transylvania in various waves from the 12th-century Ostsiedlung to the mid-19th century. They were mostly Luxembourgish, from the Low Countries as well as Alsace in modern day France, but also from other parts of present-day Germany.
The first ancestors of the Transylvanian 'Saxons' originally stemmed from Flanders, Hainaut, Brabant, Liège, Zeeland, Moselle, Lorraine, and Luxembourg, then situated in the north-western territories of the Holy Roman Empire around the 1140s and 1150s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Transylvanian Saxons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.