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I think the history of upper and lower Saxony needs to be kept completely separate, otherways it gets confusing
-- Yak 13:56, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
if it is an article about the german Bundesland, it should start in 1990, when it was created. But the section obviously referrs to the electorate/kingdom of Saxony as well. Upper Saxony was used from the 16th century onwards to distinguish the Meißen area (in the electorate of Saxony) from lower Saxony.
I simply find a reference to the Saxon tribes of the early middle age confusing in an article that deals with a German Bundesland. The Name "saxony" for the present day bundesland arose for dynastic reasons, there is no "ethnic" or whatever connection to the Saxon tribe or the population of Niedersachsen
-- Yak 14:32, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
Why not retitle the article Free State of Saxony and make an article about the historical use of the term under Saxony?
Today when the "On this day" section highlights the Prussian invasion of Saxony, I'm surprised the Saxony history page doesn't refer to this at all. So I added a paragraph to the "Foundation of the Second Saxon state". I haven't put any citations in, my source is the Seven Years War page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marfinan ( talk • contribs) 23:44, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
"Bundesland" is German and means "Federal Country" in English. All states in germany are basically independent countries with their own flags and anthems. The states decided to give up their souvereignity and form a federation but basically every state is able to leave the union whenever it wants.
German Länder can leave the Federal Republic by popular vote!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.207.137 ( talk) 14:00, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
"After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic and was the scene of Gustav Stresemann's overthrow of the KPD/SPD led government in 1923, during the Nazi era and under Soviet occupation." You are retarded to even use wikipedia because peole like me can do things like this! Candidus 13:41, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Freistaat does not mean free state but republic. See de:Freistaat. Ulf-S. 11:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a dictionary. If native speakers of the English language use some words of German origin, the lemma is the same as in German. But it is ridiculous that German editors who like to see German lemmas in an English dictionary decide what lemmas to use. We do not need here a translation of “Ministerpräsident”. Such person heads (in French présider, from Latin prae and sidere) an administration consisting of ministers. That is in English prime minister.
Saxony is in fact a republic. Let us call it what it is. That Germans sometimes prefer “Freistaat” and sometimes “Republik” does not matter English readers at all. Please find another place for presenting the German language to English-speakers. Ulf-S. 13:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Saxony is just like the other Free States NO republic - that would suggest that it would be an independant state. The term Freistaat is a historical remnant that today has no meaning whatsoever (like the name affix "Hansestadt" (see Hanseatic League) for Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock...etc.). In Germany's federal structure all Bundesländer have the same status. 87.182.82.162 18:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I have moved the article from Saxony to Free State of Saxony. Of almost 2000 links to Saxony only some 25 where about the modern federal state. I have changed these to link to the Free State of Saxony. I have also redirected Saxony to Saxony (disambiguation) and updated the dab page. It should in fact be renamed Saxony.
There are now some 2000 links to disambiguate. This will be a difficult task, as it is sometimes impossible to know which Saxony is refered to in the older sources. Dates do help. -- Petri Krohn 08:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
To judge from the above discussion, it doesn't look like the move from Saxony to Free State of Saxony -- and especially the fact that Saxony is now a redirect to History of Saxony has met with much support at all. Kusma has also objected to it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Germany#Saxony, and I concur. I think Free State of Saxony should be moved back to its original name of Saxony. — An gr 08:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
The flag of Saxony represents totally the Saxon values. It is constituded by a white strip, a symbol of surrender and at the bottom the Islamic green to represent the Saxon values.
Why bother respect the great true Saxon artworks and not add the strips of surrender and Islam. That's what Saxony is all about!
Delete the past and follow Islam! "Harab Di Alalek" is the classic ancient Saxon motto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.84.198.175 ( talk) 19:31, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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The map in the infobox appears to be a map of Germany that does not highlight or label Saxony in any way. I tried to resolve this issue myself by comparing the Brandenburg infobox, which has the same map but with Brandenburg highlighted, but I was unable to find the problem. Many thanks to whoever understands the infobox maps well enough to fix this! A2soup ( talk) 18:59, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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The name of the state is „Sachsen“ and nothing else. You can not translate a name, a name has its own unique meaning as the name itself. For that it cannot be translated. I also can not „translate“ for example Barack Obama into some deutsch sounding replacement like „Bernd Obmann“ or so, because it would alter the meaning of the name itself. Its Barack Obama and Barack Obama only. So you can not translate Sachsen as well. A state with the name „Saxony“ does not exist, it is only a fantasy of english speaking people. Therfore please write and use „Sachsen“, esecially in an encyclopedia and try to learn to pronounce it as good as you can. 2003:C8:6F23:4600:D381:9416:416:7DE0 ( talk) 20:08, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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I think the history of upper and lower Saxony needs to be kept completely separate, otherways it gets confusing
-- Yak 13:56, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
if it is an article about the german Bundesland, it should start in 1990, when it was created. But the section obviously referrs to the electorate/kingdom of Saxony as well. Upper Saxony was used from the 16th century onwards to distinguish the Meißen area (in the electorate of Saxony) from lower Saxony.
I simply find a reference to the Saxon tribes of the early middle age confusing in an article that deals with a German Bundesland. The Name "saxony" for the present day bundesland arose for dynastic reasons, there is no "ethnic" or whatever connection to the Saxon tribe or the population of Niedersachsen
-- Yak 14:32, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
Why not retitle the article Free State of Saxony and make an article about the historical use of the term under Saxony?
Today when the "On this day" section highlights the Prussian invasion of Saxony, I'm surprised the Saxony history page doesn't refer to this at all. So I added a paragraph to the "Foundation of the Second Saxon state". I haven't put any citations in, my source is the Seven Years War page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marfinan ( talk • contribs) 23:44, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
"Bundesland" is German and means "Federal Country" in English. All states in germany are basically independent countries with their own flags and anthems. The states decided to give up their souvereignity and form a federation but basically every state is able to leave the union whenever it wants.
German Länder can leave the Federal Republic by popular vote!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.207.137 ( talk) 14:00, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
"After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic and was the scene of Gustav Stresemann's overthrow of the KPD/SPD led government in 1923, during the Nazi era and under Soviet occupation." You are retarded to even use wikipedia because peole like me can do things like this! Candidus 13:41, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Freistaat does not mean free state but republic. See de:Freistaat. Ulf-S. 11:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a dictionary. If native speakers of the English language use some words of German origin, the lemma is the same as in German. But it is ridiculous that German editors who like to see German lemmas in an English dictionary decide what lemmas to use. We do not need here a translation of “Ministerpräsident”. Such person heads (in French présider, from Latin prae and sidere) an administration consisting of ministers. That is in English prime minister.
Saxony is in fact a republic. Let us call it what it is. That Germans sometimes prefer “Freistaat” and sometimes “Republik” does not matter English readers at all. Please find another place for presenting the German language to English-speakers. Ulf-S. 13:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Saxony is just like the other Free States NO republic - that would suggest that it would be an independant state. The term Freistaat is a historical remnant that today has no meaning whatsoever (like the name affix "Hansestadt" (see Hanseatic League) for Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock...etc.). In Germany's federal structure all Bundesländer have the same status. 87.182.82.162 18:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I have moved the article from Saxony to Free State of Saxony. Of almost 2000 links to Saxony only some 25 where about the modern federal state. I have changed these to link to the Free State of Saxony. I have also redirected Saxony to Saxony (disambiguation) and updated the dab page. It should in fact be renamed Saxony.
There are now some 2000 links to disambiguate. This will be a difficult task, as it is sometimes impossible to know which Saxony is refered to in the older sources. Dates do help. -- Petri Krohn 08:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
To judge from the above discussion, it doesn't look like the move from Saxony to Free State of Saxony -- and especially the fact that Saxony is now a redirect to History of Saxony has met with much support at all. Kusma has also objected to it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Germany#Saxony, and I concur. I think Free State of Saxony should be moved back to its original name of Saxony. — An gr 08:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
The flag of Saxony represents totally the Saxon values. It is constituded by a white strip, a symbol of surrender and at the bottom the Islamic green to represent the Saxon values.
Why bother respect the great true Saxon artworks and not add the strips of surrender and Islam. That's what Saxony is all about!
Delete the past and follow Islam! "Harab Di Alalek" is the classic ancient Saxon motto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.84.198.175 ( talk) 19:31, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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The map in the infobox appears to be a map of Germany that does not highlight or label Saxony in any way. I tried to resolve this issue myself by comparing the Brandenburg infobox, which has the same map but with Brandenburg highlighted, but I was unable to find the problem. Many thanks to whoever understands the infobox maps well enough to fix this! A2soup ( talk) 18:59, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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The name of the state is „Sachsen“ and nothing else. You can not translate a name, a name has its own unique meaning as the name itself. For that it cannot be translated. I also can not „translate“ for example Barack Obama into some deutsch sounding replacement like „Bernd Obmann“ or so, because it would alter the meaning of the name itself. Its Barack Obama and Barack Obama only. So you can not translate Sachsen as well. A state with the name „Saxony“ does not exist, it is only a fantasy of english speaking people. Therfore please write and use „Sachsen“, esecially in an encyclopedia and try to learn to pronounce it as good as you can. 2003:C8:6F23:4600:D381:9416:416:7DE0 ( talk) 20:08, 14 February 2023 (UTC)