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Bavarians
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Bavarians
- Ethnic group.flag
- 250px
- Ethnic group.flag_caption
- Flag of Bavaria
- Ethnic group.total
- 15 million
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity (Catholic Church with a Protestant minority)
- Ethnic group.langs
- Native and historicBavarianPredominantGerman
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Germanic peoples(especially Slavs, Celts, Hungarians, Other Germans)
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Areal and dialectal subdivision
- History
- Origins
- Holy Roman Empire
- Modern history
- List of notable Bavarians
- Scientists
- Business
- Politicians
- Artists
- Athletes
- Others
- See also
- Notes
- References
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Bavarians are an ethnographic group of Germans native to Bavaria, a state in Germany. The group's dialect or language is known as Bavarian, native to Altbayern ("Old Bavaria"), roughly the territory of the historic Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century.