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Swabia, Suabia, or Svebia (German: Schwaben, Schwabenland or
Ländle) is both a historic and linguistic (see Swabian German) region
in Germany. Swabia consists of much of the present-day state of
Baden-Württemberg (specifically, historical Württemberg and the
Hohenzollerische Lande), as well as the Bavarian administrative
region of Swabia. In the Middle Ages, Baden, Vorarlberg, the modern
principality of Liechtenstein, modern German-speaking Switzerland,
and Alsace (now in France) were also considered to be a part of
Swabia.

Contents:

1 History
1.1 Suebi
1.2 Duchy of Swabia
1.3 Holy Roman Empire
1.4 Modern history
2 Swabian settlements abroad
3 Popular culture
4 Related Alemannic dialects
5 Famous Swabians
6 See also
7 External links
8 References


History --- Suebi:


Europe in 400 AD, showing the Suebi in Swabia and their neighbors.
2000 years ago, the Suebi or Suevi were an Elbe Germanic people
whose origin was near the Baltic Sea, which was thus known to the
Romans as the Mare Suebicum (today, the term "Swabian Sea" is
applied to Lake Constance - Bodensee). They migrated to the
southwest, becoming part of the Alamannic confederacy. The
Alamanni were ruled by independent kings throughout the 4th and
5th centuries. Also, a number of Suevi (20,000-50,000[1]) reached
the Iberian Peninsula under king Hermeric and established an
independent kingdom in 410 in what is now northern Portugal,
Galicia, and western regions of Asturias and most of León (in
northwest Spain). It endured until 585. Its political center was
Braccara Augusta (present-day Braga, Portugal).

Duchy of Swabia - Main article - Alamannia:

Swabia became a duchy under the Frankish Empire in 496, following
the Battle of Tolbiac. Swabia was one of the original stem duchies of
East Francia, the later Holy Roman Empire, as it developed in the 9th
and 10th centuries. The Hohenstaufen dynasty (the dynasty of
Frederick Barbarossa), which ruled the Holy Roman Empire in the
12th and 13th centuries, arose out of Swabia, but following the
execution of Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen, on October 29, 1268,
the original duchy gradually broke up into many smaller units.

Holy Roman Empire:

Karl the Great (or Charlemagne - Karl der Grosse's) family is known
to hail from Swabia. The major dynasties that arose out of the region
were the Habsburgs and the Hohenzollerns, who rose to prominence
in Northern Germany. Also stemming from Swabia are the local
dynasties of the Dukes of Württemberg and the Margraves of Baden.
The Welf family went on to rule in Bavaria and Hanover, and are
ancestral to the British royal family that has ruled since 1714.
Smaller feudal dynasties eventually disappeared; however, for
example, branches of the Montforts and Hohenems lived until
modern times, and the Fürstenberg survive still. The region proved
to be one of the most divided in the Empire, containing, in addition
to these principalities, numerous free cities, ecclesiastical territories,
and fiefdoms of lesser counts and knights.

The Old Swiss Confederacy was de facto independent from Swabia
from 1499 as a result of the Swabian War.

Fearing the power of the greater princes, the cities and smaller
secular rulers of Swabia joined to form the Swabian League in the
15th century. The League was quite successful, notably expelling
the Duke of Württemberg in 1519 and putting in his place a
Habsburg governor, but the league broke up a few years later over
religious differences inspired by the Reformation, and the Duke of
Württemberg was soon restored. The region was quite divided by
the Reformation. While secular princes like the Duke of Württemberg
and the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, as well as most of the Free
Cities, became Protestant, the ecclesiastical territories (including the
bishoprics of Augsburg, Konstanz and others) remained Catholic, as
did the territories belonging to the Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns and
the Margrave of Baden-Baden.

Modern history:

In the wake of the territorial reorganization of the Empire of 1803 by
the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the shape of Swabia was
entirely changed. All the ecclesiastical estates were secularized, and
most of the smaller secular states, and almost all of the free cities,
were mediatized, leaving only Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern
as sovereign states. Much of Eastern Swabia became part of
Bavaria, forming what is now the Bavarian administrative region of
Swabia.

From 1939 to 1945, Nazi Germany claimed sovereignty over an area
of Antarctica, which was named Neu-Schwabenland in honour of
Swabia.

Swabian settlements abroad:

Outside of Germany, many Swabians settled in Hungary, including
part of what is now Serbia; and Romania (the Danube Swabians and
Swabian Turkey) in the 18th century, where they were invited as
pioneers to repopulate some areas. They also settled in Russia,
Bessarabia, and Kazakhstan. They were well-respected as farmers.
Outside of Europe, Swabian settlements can also be found in Brazil,
Canada, and the United States. The town of Swaffham, Norfolk
means "homestead of the Swabians", some of whom must
presumably have settled in England alongside the Angles and
Saxons.

Popular culture:


A campaign sticker, translated, "We can do everything—except
speak High German." This is an allusion to the fact that Baden-
Württemberg is one of the principal centres for innovation in
Germany with many inhabitants having distinctive dialects.

Swabians have in former times been the target of many jokes and
stories where they are depicted as excessively stingy, overly
serious, prudish, or as simpletons, for instance in "The Seven
Swabians" (Die sieben Schwaben) published in Kinder- und
Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm. However, this has ceased to a
large extent, while Swabians are nowadays said to be frugal, clever,
entrepreneurial and hard-working. In a widely respected publicity
campaign on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Baden-
Württemberg, the economically most successful state in modern
Germany, the Swabians famously replied to the former jokes with:
""We can do everything - except speak Standard German" (Wir
können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch), alluding to the region's distinct
local dialect.

Many Swabian surnames end with the suffixes -le, -el, -ehl, and -lin.
Examples would be: Schäuble, Egeler, Rommel, and Gmelin. The
popular surname Schwab is derived from this area, meaning literally
"Swabian".

In Switzerland, "Sauschwab" is a derogatory term for Germans,
derived from the Swabian War of 1499. In Serbian, Polish, and
Bulgarian, "Shvab" or "Szwab" may be a semi-abusive term for any
German, not just one from Swabia. In parts of the former Yugoslavia
(i.e. Slovenia, Slavonija in Croatia, and Vojvodina in Serbia), the term
Swab (locally Švab, from Шваб) is somewhat applied to all German
peoples who lived in those regions until shortly after World War II,
and many of their descendants; it is even occasionally used as a
slang term to refer to all Germans as well as Austrians and Swiss
German speaking people.

Related Alemannic dialects:

Contemporary distribution of Alemannic dialects; Swabian
(Schwäbisch) is one of the Alemannic German dialects of High
German, spoken in the region of Swabia, present in the North-
Eastern area of the Alemannic Sprachraum. A separate version of
Wikipedia is maintained as D'alemannisch Wikipedia, which the main
page called Houptsyte.
































































































Sudeten Mountains

Sudetes
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A view from Zygmuntówka refuge, Góry Sowie


Destroyed forest on the top of Wielka Sowa










The Sudetes (pronounced /suːˈdiːtiːz/) is a mountain range in Central
Europe. It is also known as the Sudeten (German [zuˈdeːtən]) or
Sudety (Czech [ˈsudetɪ], Polish suˈdɛtɨ) Mountains.
The Sudetes stretch from eastern Germany to Poland and the Czech
Republic. The highest peak is Sněžka (Śnieżka) in the Krkonoše
(Karkonosze) Mountains on the Czech-Polish border, which is 1,602
metres (5,260 ft) in altitude. The current geomorphological unit in
the Czech part of the mountain range is Krkonošsko-jesenická
subprovincie ("Krkonoše-Jeseníky").
The Krkonoše Mountains have experienced growing tourism for
winter sports during the past ten years. Their skiing resorts are
becoming an alternative to the Alps.

Contents:

1 Etymology
2 History
2.1 Role of Sudetes in World War II
2.2 Post-war
3 Subdivisions
4 Notable towns
5 References
6 External links


Etymology:

The name Sudetes has been derived from Sudeti montes, a
Latinization of the name Soudeta ore used in the Geographia of
Ptolemy (Book 2, Chapter 10) ca. 150 for the present-day northern
Czech mountains. Ptolemy said that they were above the Gabreta
Forest, which places them in the Sudetenland. Ptolemy wrote in
Greek, in which the name is a neuter plural. Latin mons, however, is
a masculine, hence Sudeti. The Latin version is likely to be a
scholastic innovation, as it is not attested in classical Latin literature.
The meaning of the name is not known. In one hypothetical
derivation, it means Mountains of Wild Boars, relying on Indo-
European *su-, "pig". A better etymology perhaps is from Latin
sudis, plural sudes, "spines", which can be used of spiny fish or
spiny terrain.

History:

The exact location of the Sudetes is not very clear, as it has varied
over the centuries. The ancient "Sudetenland" meant at least the
northwest frontier of today's Czech Republic, probably extending to
the north. By implication, it was part of the Hercynian Forest
mentioned by many ancient authors of Antiquity.

Role of Sudetes in World War II - Prior to World War II, Hitler's Third
Reich took control of the Sudeten Mountains and Sudetenland.
Nearly a thousand years ago up until the first World War, the area
was occupied mostly by ethnic Germans.  The German farmers
preferred the higher mountainous terrain as compared to the
lowlands.  Over the years the Czechs moved into the lower terrain of
the Sudetenland, and for hundreds of years the Czechs and the
Germans lived together in perfect harmony.   After World War I and
the shameful attitude of the conquering hordes at Versailles, France,
ceded the German Sudetenland to the Czechs naming it ironically
Czechoslovakia, which combined the Czechs with the Slovaks, who
both despised each other, but were forced into a unity to
supposedly apease both the Czechs and the Slovaks.

During World War II, many of the Slovaks fought against the
partisans, the Czechs, the Russians, and other allies, on the side of
the Third Reich.  (It is interesting to note - that much of this is not
published in the papers or in the history books.  We wonder why or
why not?)  The fact is that this was a German homeland for
centuries, not as the revisionists would like you to understand.

The name was used before World War II in (Nazi) German parlance
to describe areas of Czechoslovakia with large German populations.
A considerable proportion of Czechoslovak/Czech and Polish
populace strongly resist to use this term as it harks painfully to the
Nazi German times. After being annexed by Nazi Germany, much of
the region was redesignated as the province of Sudetenland -
Sudetengau. The ethnic Germans living there were called Sudeten
Germans. They were heavily clustered, especially along Bohemia's
borders to German Silesia and Saxony. These were the descendants
of Medieval German colonists invited by the Kings of Bohemia into
these previously Slavic areas[citation needed - not true] for
agricultural and urban development (see Ostsiedlung). Adolf Hitler
redefined the term to mean the entire mountainous periphery of
Czechoslovakia, and under that pretext, got his future enemies to
concede the Czech defensive border in the Munich Agreement,
leaving the remainder of Czechoslovakia shorn of its border
fortifications and buffer zone. Germany occupied the rest of
Bohemia and Moravia in March, 1939.

Post-war:

After World War II, most of the German population of
Czechoslovakia was forcibly expelled. Neither
Czechoslovakia/Czechia, nor Poland observe this designation
officially, in maps etc., using only discrete local names in Czech and
Polish for individual mountain ranges (e.g., Karkonosze/Krkonoše,
see Subdivisions below).

The occupation of Sudetes by Germany in 1938–1939 was discussed
again in 2008 in connection with the South-Ossetian war [1][2][3][4]
[5] and Kosovo [6][7].

Subdivisions:

The Sudetes are usually divided into:
Eastern Sudetes
Golden Mountains
Jeseníky Mountains
Opawskie Mountains
Śnieżnik Mountains
Central Sudetes
Bardzkie Mountains
Bystrzyckie Mountains
Orlické Mountains
Owl Mountains
Stone Mountains
Table Mountains
Western Sudetes
Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge
Jizera Mountains
Kaczawskie Mountains
Karkonosze/Krkonoše
Lusatian Mountains
Rudawy Janowickie
Lausitzer Bergland
[edit] Notable towns
Notable towns in this area include:
Zittau (Germany)
Karpacz (Poland)
Szklarska Poręba (Poland)
Špindlerův Mlýn (Czech Republic)
Vrchlabí (Czech Republic)
Harrachov (Czech Republic)

References:

^ Dick Morris, Eileen McGann. HITLER INVADED SUDETENLAND;
NOW PUTIN INVADES SOUTH OSSETIA. Baltimore reporter,
September 20th 2008 , Vol 1. No. 25. http://www.baltimorereporter.
com/?p=5636
^ Kate Connolly. Obama adviser compares Putin to Hitler. Guardian,
Tuesday August 12 2008; http://www.guardian.co.
uk/world/2008/aug/12/georgia
^ BBC Monitoring: Lithuania's main daily urges policymakers to
boost country's national security. Lituanica, September 1, 2008 http:
//irzikevicius.wordpress.com/
^ Melik Kaylan. Destroying Democracy. Forbes, September 4, 2008.
http://virtualcollector.blogspot.com/2008/09/destroying-democracy.
html
^ Михаил Берг. Осетинские Судеты. Грани, 14.08.2008, http://grani.
ru/Politics/Russia/m.140057.html
^ Luis Sanzo. Quebec/Kosovo. Britakula Almendron, 30 de Junio de
2006 , http://www.almendron.com/tribuna/9786/quebeckosovo/
^ Von Jürgen Elsässer. Verhandlungen nach Rambouillet-Muster.
Verhandlungen über den Status der serbischen Provinz Kosovo
stehen bevor, http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Serbien-
Montenegro/status4.html
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Ancient City of Prague

About Prague
Ancient Prague
Prague watch

Prague, a city spread over wooded hills on either side of the Vltava
river, is a place that has always inspired superlatives and effusive
prose. Spared by bombing in the Second World War and, until
recently, scarcely defaced by bill­boards, brash neon and other
attributes of the Western city, the old centre of Prague is so
uncannily well preserved that at times the visitor seems to be
walking not in a real place but in a stage set or fairy-tale illustration.
Few dispute that Prague is a city unrivalled in its beauty in central
Europe, but there are also many who would agree with Milan
Kundera's assessment-reached in the course of a stroll one day up a
deserted Petřin Hill - that Prague was 'the most beautiful city in the
world'.

Prague is a city which creates a lot of unexpected impressions! To
feel the atmosphere of Prague is enough just to stop for a moment
at the Charlie's Bridge ( Karlův Most) , the ancient bridge of the 13
th century with Baroque statues, the bridge situated in the very
heart of the historical part of the city.

Here and there you will observe towers in the early Gothic and
Roman style. Buildings in the Renaissance style turn Prague into a
very romantic place; the cupolas of Baroque Churches made people
name the city The Golden Prague ( Zlatá Praha ) .


For all the vicissitudes of history, Prague architecture and historic
values remained in the original shape! At every step, everywhere
there are places of interest: The Imperial Residence Prague Castle (
Pražsky Hrad ) with numerous palaces, galleries, cathedrals. ‘A spell
hangs in the air of this citadel', wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor in a Time
of Gifts , 'and I was under its thrall long before I could pronounce its
name.' The enormous Prague Castle ( Pražsky Hrad ) rises up above
the Little Quarter ( Mala Strana ) like a town in its own right, its
elegant Classical casing holding together a veritable architectural
treasury from which project the fantastical Gothic spires of St
Vitus's Cathedral ( Chrám Svatého Víta ).


The old Town square ( Staroměsrské náměsti ) is certainly worth a
visit, this is an ancient square with cobble-stone roads, Church of
St. Nicholas, the Goltz-Kinsky palace, the Town Hall Astronomical
Clock Orloj (1410) which became the symbol of the city; Parizska
street which leads to Josefov , Prague Jewish Quarter (today an
open air museum with synagogues, Old-New Synagogue is the
oldest functioning synagogue in Europe, it dates back to the middle
of the 13C). Walk this long, straight avenue, is lined with large,
oppressively ornamented blocks featuring fantastical corners
composed of irregularly shaped balconies and openings piled up one
on the top of each other.


Practically nothing has changed in Prague from the Middle Ages. Of
course, the city itself has grown up. And today the population is
about 1 250 000 inhabitants. Buildings spread over the Prague
suburbs. The transport system on the one hand has made life more
convenient, but on the other hand it has changed the look of the city
in comparison to the ancient town on the Vltava river. Nevertheless
in Prague there is still that especial atmosphere which inspired
poets, writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, scientists! Almost
four centuries the Czech Kingdom was ruled by the Habsburgs and
was the part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not without reason the
Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II moved the capital city of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire from Vienna to mysterious and enigmatic Prague.
Namely during the reign of Rudolf II a lot of famous persons worked
in Prague. For instance, painters Bartolomaeus Spranger , Adriaen
de Vries and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (worked as a court artist);
astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler , the surgeon Jan
Jesenius , the mathematician Jost Burgi (the inventor of logarithms),
the alchemist Edward Kelley . At the King Court there was a round
staff of alchemists who by order of the Emperor were trying to find
the secret of turning the base metals into gold.


Speaking about Prague one should notice the writer Franz Kafka ,
whose study room was at the Golden Line ( Zlatá ulička ) , today this
street is one of the important sightseeing in Prague Castle.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conducted the opera Don Giovanni in the
Prague Estate Theatre in 1787. Travel to Prague to listen to this
opera at the same theatre where the premiere was! Albert Einstein
lectured at the Charles's University, which was founded by the
greatest Czech king Charles IV. Famous Russian poet Marina
Tsvetajeva lived and wrote some poetry pieces in Prague. And many-
many other persons who had contributed heavily into the progress
of society.


The British writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, whose indigestibly rich
prose has conjured up images of a wholly fantastical Prague, is by
no means alone in considering the city not just as one of the most
beautiful he has known but also as the strangest. The word
'magical', so misused by travel writers, is literally applicable to
Prague, a city where the Habsburg emperor Rudolph II immersed
himself in alchemy and the occult to the extent that be was
eventually deposed as insane, where Doctor Faustus sold his soul to
the devil, and where the Surrealist poet Andre Breton discovered his
'magic metropolis of old Europe'.

At the same time in Prague all the epochs and all the architectural
styles exist: Roman rotundas, Gothic temples, Renaissance summer
palaces, palaces and cathedrals in Baroque style, theatres and
concert halls in styles of Modern, Cubism, post-Modern, surrealism
– everything is safe and sound, because all these buildings were
preserved intact.

To feel Prague you need to visit Prague! And believe, every time it
would be a different city with new impressions! And every time new
memories afterwards!

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Famous Swabian Personalities
1
  Josef Eberle
Swabian Poet who versed Swabian poems.
2
  Leopold Mozart
Father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the
family originally came from Swabia
3
  Maria-Luise Woehrle
Arctic weather expert and region skiing
champion
4
  Andeas Stihl
Founder of Stihl Maschinenfabrik
5.
  Goetz von Berlichingen
"The knight with the iron fist"
6
  Johann Georg Faust
Protagonist of tales and dramas
7
  Johannes Kepler
Astronomer and Mathematician
8
  Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
German Officer during World War II who
participated in an assassination attempt on
Hitler.
10
  Friedrich  Schiller
Historian and Writer, Wilhelm Tell, Die
Raeuber, Maria Stuart, "Ode an die Freude"
11
  Lorenz Oken
Biologist, Anatomist, Natural Philosopher
12
  Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer
Biologist
13
  Konrad von Jungingen
Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
14
  Ulrich von Jungingen
Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
15
  Friedrich Hoelderlin
Poet
16
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel
Philosopher
17
  Friedrich Adler
Jugendstil and Art Deco Designer
18
  Ottmar Mergenthaler
Inventor of the Linotype
19
  Hans Schober
Structural Engineer
20
  Justinus Kerner
Poet
21
  Ludwig Uhland
Poet
22
  Eduard Moerike
Poet
23
  Wilhelm Hauff
Poet
24
  Bertolt Vrecht
Poet
25
  Siegfried Einstein
Poet
26
  Gottlieb Daimler
Developer of the first modern car, founder of
Daimer Motoren Gesellschaft, today: Daimler
27
  Rudolf Diesel
Inventor of the Diesel Engine
28
  Robert Bosch
Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist
29
  Margarete Steiff
Toy Maker
30
  Carl Laemmle
Founder of Universal Studios in Hollywood
31
  Karl Friedrich Benz
Inventor of the first (petrol) -powered
automobile
32
  Nikolaus August Otto
Inventor of the Internal-combustion engine.
33
  Felix Heinrich Wankel
Inventor of the Wankel engine
34
  Johannes Nauclerus
Historian, University Rector/Chancellor
35
  Theodor Heuss
Former President of the Federal Republic of
Germany
36
  Richard von Weizsaecker
Former President of the Federal Republic of
Germany
37
  Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic
of Germany
38
  Sophie Scholl
Member of the White Rose resistance
against the Nazis
39
  Hans Scholl
Brother of Sophie Scholl and member of the
White Rose resistance against the Nazis
40
  Georg Elser
Member of the resistance against the Nazis
41
  Claus von Stauffenberg
Leader of the July 20 Plot to assassinate
Adolf Hitler
42
  Albert Leo Schlageter
World War I soldier, Freikorps leader,
executed by French occupation forces
43
  Ernst Heinkel
Aircraft Designer
44
  Guenther Rall
Ninth-highest scoring Ace of World War II,
275 victories
45
  Hermann Graf
Ninth-highest scoring ace of World War II.
212 victories
46
  Hans Ekkehard Bob
World War II Ace, Me 262 pilot, 60 victories
47
  Werner Streib
Nightfighter ace, 66 victories, tested the He
219 in combat
48
  Erich Hartmann
Highest-scoring Ace of World War II, 352
victories
49
  Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer
Highest scoring Nightfighter ace of World
War II, 121 victories
50
  Erwin Rommel
World War II General (Field Marshall) (Known
also as the Desert Fox).  He was forced to
commit suicide by the SS because of being
involved with the plot to kill Adolf Hitler.  
Committing Suicide spared his family from
being executed.  His son later became the
mayor of Stuttgart.
51
  Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
52
  Reinhold Naegele
World War I soldier, painter
53
  Roland Emmerich
Hollywood Director
54
  Harald Schmidt
Late-night talk show host
55
  Juergen Klinsmann
Football (soccer) player and former coach of
the German National Team
56
  Albert Einstein
Physicist, Nobel Laureate
57
  Hermann Hesse
Poet, writer, 1946 Nobel Laureate for
Literature
58
  Roland Asch
Race Driver
59
  Joachim Loew
Football (soccer) player and former coach of
the German National Team
60
  Gudrun Ensslin
A founder of the German terrorist group Red
Army Faction or RAF, a.k.a. the
Baader-Meinhof Gang
61
  Gustav Schwab
Writer, most popular for "die schoensten
Sagen des klassischen Altertums".
62
  Dieter Baumann
Olympic gold medalist and anti-doping
activist
63
  Wilhelm Groener
Railroad chief in the German General Staff,
Minister of Transportation, Minister of
Defense, and Acting Minister of the Interior in
the Weimar Republic.
64
  Richard Vogt
Aircraft designer
65
  Philip Melanchthon
Sixteenth-century Lutheran reformer,
philologist, and educator