The Franconian flag (German: Frankenfahne or Frankenflagge) is a symbol of Franconia, a region in North Bavaria and parts of Thuringia, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
The Franconianflag (German: Frankenfahne or Frankenflagge) is a symbol of Franconia, a region in North Bavaria and parts of Thuringia, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg...
[ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍] ; East Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect (German:...
The Franconian Circle (German: Fränkischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle established in 1500 in the centre of the Holy Roman Empire. It comprised...
Lorraine Franconian is a catch-all term for what were historically three dialects: Luxembourgish, Mosel Franconian, and Rhine Franconian. Each is identical...
Lorraine Franconian (Lorraine Franconian: Plàtt or lottrìnger Plàtt; French: francique lorrain or platt lorrain; German: Lothringisch) is an ambiguous...
Franconia Day or Tag der Franken ("Day of the Franconians") was created in 2006 following a decision by the Bavarian Landtag and has been celebrated annually...
Westphalian variant of the Low German language, Central German and Low Franconian dialects are spoken in the Northern Rhineland. These different regional...
Saarland was one of the last between member states and led to the European flag being given a politically neutral ring of twelve stars rather than the originally...
community spoke variants of Walloon, Dutch, Picard, Luxembourgish or Moselle Franconian German, but nowadays, the dominant language is overwhelmingly Belgian...
foster different cultural identities. Franconia in the north speaks East Franconian German. Bavarian Swabia in the south west speaks Swabian German. Altbayern...
Städte) and nine country districts (Landkreise). The major portion of the Franconian wine region is situated in Lower Franconia. The Gross domestic product...
(/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏɐ̯nbɛɐ̯k] ; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest...
related to Dutch but has more German influences. Luxembourgish, a Moselle Franconian language, is native to Arelerland, the eastern part of the Belgian province...
France from 1920 to 1935 under a League of Nations mandate. It had its own flag (adopted on July 28, 1920): a blue, white, and black horizontal tricolour...
State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them...
, Upper Franconian: [ba(ː)ˈɾaɪ̯t]; Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and...
Aschaffenburg (German pronunciation: [aˈʃafn̩bʊʁk] ; South Franconian: Aschebersch) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg...
the castle remained in the Swabian branch, the dynastic seniors of the Franconian-Brandenburgian cadet branch that later acquired its own imperial throne...
The House of Schwarzenberg is a German (Franconian) and Czech (Bohemian) aristocratic family, formerly one of the most prominent European noble houses...
Wallonia, where it is known as Gaumais. It has been influenced by Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish, West Central German languages spoken in nearby or overlapping...
Dialects with strong West Frisian substrates, including Low German and Low Franconian, are also spoken in West Frisia. In the province of Groningen, people...
speak Rhine Franconian (in the southeast, very similar to that dialect spoken in the western part of the Palatinate) and Moselle Franconian (in the northwest...
the "Cross of Anjou" in the 16th century. René II placed the symbol on his flag before the Battle of Nancy in January 1477. In the battle, René defeated...
coat of arms of the Electorate of the Palatinate. Second Quarter (The Franconian Rake): At the sinister chief, per fess dancetty, gules and argent. This...
Wappenbuch, 1703 Two regional languages survive in the region. Lorraine Franconian, known as francique or platt (lorrain) in French, is a West Central German...
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