Swabians
Swabians ( , singular Schwabe) are a German ethnographic group native to the region of Swabia, which is mostly divided between the modern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in southwestern Germany.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Schwaben
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- de
- Ethnic group.image
- Rutenfest 2011 Festzug Sieben Schwaben 1.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Rutenfest in Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, celebrating the folklore story of "The Seven Swabians" by the Brothers Grimm
- Ethnic group.regions
- (, )
- Ethnic group.religions
- primarily Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism
- Ethnic group.languages
- German (Swabian)
- Ethnic group.related
- Suebi
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Culture
- Swabian German
- Emigration
- Hollandgänger
- Ostsiedlung
- Overseas
- Recent migration within Germany
- List of notable Swabians
- References
- See also
Swabians ( , singular Schwabe) are a German ethnographic group native to the region of Swabia, which is mostly divided between the modern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in southwestern Germany.
The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, whose Germanic inhabitants were interchangeably called Alemanni or Suebi. This territory would include all of the Alemannic German area, but the modern concept of Swabia is more restricted, due to the collapse of the duchy of Swabia in the 13th century. Swabia as understood in modern ethnography roughly coincides with the Swabian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire as it stood during the Early Modern period.