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Saxons


  • Residents of Saxony, Germany.
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  • Variants

    • Sachsen
  • Broader Terms

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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Klengel, Julius. Julius Klengel : a celebration, ℗2012:contents (Capriccio on a theme of Schumann for unaccompanied cello / Julius Klengel -- Sarabande / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Three pieces for 2 cellos and organ / Julius Klengel -- Adagio / Giuseppe Tartini -- Kleine Suite : for 3 cellos / Julius Klengel -- Tarantelle / Bernhard Cossmann -- Impromptu for 4 cellos / Julius Klengel -- Mazurka / David Popper -- Hymnus for 12 cellos / Julius Klengel)
    • found: Wikipedia, May 23, 2017(Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his etudes and solo pieces written for the instrument; born Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony; died Leipzig, Germany; after his 15th birthday, Klengel joined the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Klengel rose to become principal cellist of the orchestra, aged 22, in 1881. There he remained for over four decades; during that time period, Klengel became professor at the Leipzig Conservatory; died in his hometown of Leipzig)
    • found: Britannica online, May 23, 2017:Leipzig (Leipzig, city, western Saxony Land (state), east-central Germany) Saxony (Saxony, German Sachsen, Land (state), eastern Germany; the Saxon economy)
    • found: Buse, D.K. The regions of Germany, 2005:p. 192 (Saxony; Free State of Saxony; industrial heartland of eastern Germany within the triangle Dresden, Leipzig, and Chemnitz; in 1989, Saxons led the protests that resulted in the fall of the Communist regime in eastern Germany)
    • found: The Oxford-Duden German dictionary, 1999(der Sachse: the Saxon; plural: die Sachsen)
    • found: Merriam-Webster dictionary online, May 23, 2017(Saxon 1 a (1) : a member of a Germanic people that entered and conquered England with the Angles and Jutes in the fifth century A.D. and merged with them to form the Anglo-Saxon people (2) : an Englishman or lowlander as distinguished from a Welshman, Irishman, or Highlander; 1 b : a native or inhabitant of Saxony)
    • found: Oxford English dictionaries online, May 23, 2017(Saxon 1. A member of a people that inhabited parts of central and northern Germany from Roman times, many of whom conquered and settled in much of southern England in the 5th–6th centuries. 1.1. A native of modern Saxony in Germany)
    • found: Cambridge dictionary online, May 23, 2017(Saxon: a) a member of the people who were originally from Germany and who came to live in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries b) a person from the German state of Saxony)
    • notfound: Dickson, P. Labels for locals, 2006
  • General Notes

    • Residents of Saxony, Germany.
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  • Change Notes

    • 2017-05-23: new
    • 2022-01-31: revised
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