Saxons

Summary

Saxons is a historical ethnic group^[1]. Saxons ranks in the top 3% of historical_ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,843 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Saxons's instance of is recorded as historical ethnic group^[3].
• Saxons's instance of is recorded as ethnic group^[4].
• Saxons's instance of is recorded as tribe^[5].
• Saxons's GND ID is recorded as 4076935-5^[6].
• Saxons's locator map image is recorded as Anglo-Saxon Homelands and Settlements.svg^[7].
• Saxons's locator map image is recorded as Anglo-Saxon Homelands and Settlements ar.png^[8].
• Saxons's locator map image is recorded as Anglo-Saxon Homelands and Settlements ca.svg^[9].
• Saxons's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85117816^[10].
• Saxons's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11934325m^[11].
• Saxons's subclass of is recorded as Q135299875^[12].
• Saxons's subclass of is recorded as Germanic people^[13].
• Saxons's Commons category is recorded as Saxons^[14].
• Saxons's said to be the same as is recorded as Saxons^[15].
• Saxons's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06y22^[16].
• Saxons's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph536911^[17].
• Saxons's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Saxons^[18].
• Saxons's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 5--3^[19].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[22].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[23].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[24].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres^[25].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[26].
• Saxons's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[27].

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Saxons include Germany^[28], a sovereign state^[29], in Germany^[30], founded in 1949^[31]; Anglo-Saxons^[32], an ethnic group^[33]; Saxony^[34], a federated state of Germany^[35], in Germany^[36], founded in 1990^[37]; Lower Saxony^[38], a federated state of Germany^[39], in Germany^[40], founded in 1946^[41]; Kingdom of Saxony^[42], a historical country^[43], in German Reich^[44], founded in 1806^[45]; Saxon Wars^[46], a war^[47], in Francia^[48]; Lex Saxonum^[49], a statute^[50]; and Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae^[51], a capitulary^[52].

Why It Matters

Saxons ranks in the top 3% of historical_ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,843 views/month).^[2] Saxons has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[53] Saxons is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[54]

Entities named for Saxons include Germany^[28], a sovereign state^[29], in Germany^[30], founded in 1949^[31]; Anglo-Saxons^[32], an ethnic group^[33]; Saxony^[34], a federated state of Germany^[35], in Germany^[36], founded in 1990^[37]; Lower Saxony^[38], a federated state of Germany^[39], in Germany^[40], founded in 1946^[41]; Kingdom of Saxony^[42], a historical country^[43], in German Reich^[44], founded in 1806^[45]; and Saxon Wars^[46], a war^[47], in Francia^[48].