Ostsiedlung (German pronunciation: [ˈɔstˌziːdlʊŋ], lit. 'East settlement') is the term for the Early Medieval and High Medieval migration of ethnic Germans...
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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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Holy Roman Empire (section Ostsiedlung)
players in the political system of the Holy Roman Empire. As the result of Ostsiedlung, less populated regions of Central Europe (i.e. sparsely populated border...
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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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Swabians (section Ostsiedlung)
Swabians (German: Schwaben pronounced [ˈʃvaːbn̩] , singular Schwabe) are a Germanic-speaking people who are native to the ethnocultural and linguistic...
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expanding beyond this eastern boundary into Slavic territory (known as the Ostsiedlung). With the increasing wealth and geographic spread of the Germanic groups...
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lands had become part of the Holy Roman Empire. In the course of the Ostsiedlung, which reached its peak in the 12th to 14th centuries, this land was...
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(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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internal colonisation (Binnenkolonisation) in North German and the German Ostsiedlung and participated in its success. Matthias Hardt: Linien und Säume, Zonen...
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century was also a period of large-scale German immigration, during the Ostsiedlung, often encouraged by the Přemyslid kings. The Germans populated towns...
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