Rutenfest in Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, celebrating the folklore story of "The Seven Swabians" by the Brothers Grimm.
Regions with significant populations
Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria)
Religion
primarily Roman Catholicism
Swabians (German: Schwabenpronounced[ˈʃvaːbn̩]ⓘ, singular Schwabe) are a Germanic speaking people who are native to the ethnocultural and linguistic region of Swabia, which is now mostly divided between the modern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in southwestern Germany.[1]
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 areal, 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.
^James Minahan. One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups. Greenwood Publishing Group, Ltd., 2000. p. 650.
of what is now Serbia and Romania (the Danube Swabians, Satu Mare Swabians, Banat Swabians and Swabian Turkey) in the 18th century, where they were invited...
Romania, Serbia Swabians, an ethnic group of Germany Search for "swabian" or "schwabian" on Wikipedia. Swabia (disambiguation) Swabian Alb, a mountainous...
present-day countries: Germans of Hungary; Satu Mare Swabians; Germans of Croatia, Bačka, the Banat Swabians; and the Vojvodina Germans of Serbia's Vojvodina...
Swiss German. It can be divided into South-East Swabian, West Swabian and Central Swabian. The Danube Swabians from Hungary, Romania, and former Yugoslavia...
(Branau), and Somogy (Schomodei), and is the largest population of the Danube Swabians (Donauschwaben ). Despite the name, virtually no ethnic Turks live in the...
which are well known across Germany because they are televised every year. Swabians generally are expected to go to work as normal on Rose Monday and Fat Tuesday...
The Swabian League (Schwäbischer Bund) was a mutual defence and peace keeping association of Imperial Estates – free Imperial cities, prelates, principalities...
miles south at Schwaderloh,[b] arrived and met the Swabians in the Battle of Schwaderloh.[c] The Swabians lost more than 1,000 soldiers; 130 from the city...
The Banat Swabians are an ethnic German population in the former Kingdom of Hungary in Central-Southeast Europe, part of the Danube Swabians and Germans...
literally "Swabian". Danube Swabians (Donauschwaben): Banat Swabians Germans of Hungary Germans of Romania Germans of Serbia Satu Mare SwabiansSwabian Turkey...
novel Die Geschichte von den sieben Schwaben (The history of the seven Swabians), published in 1827, according to which in Swabia exists the tradition...
The Seven Swabians (Die Sieben Schwaben) is a German fairy tale, collected by The Brothers Grimm in the second volume edition of their Kinder- und Hausmärchen...
dialect spoken in Banat, present-day southwestern Romania by the Banat Swabians (German: Banater Schwaben), an ethnic German sub-group which is part of...
Transylvania by the Sathmar Swabians (German: Sathmarer Schwaben), who are among the few Danube Swabians who are in fact truly Swabian in origin. Many speakers...
nothing against Swabians, at least nothing with sustainable remedy effect. Theodor Fontane states in his 1895 novel Effi Briest that Swabians were a reason...
The Satu Mare Swabians or Sathmar Swabians (German: Sathmarer Schwaben) are a German ethnic group in the Satu Mare (German: Sathmar) region of Romania...
parts of Swabian food culture. The fact that soups and stews are loved by Swabians lead to the nickname Subbaschwôb which means "Soup Swabian". In fine...
Swabian Group (Romanian: Gruparea Șvabilor, SB) was an ethnic German political party in Romania supporting the minority rights of the Banat Swabians....
county, Hungary. Until the end of World War II, the inhabitants were Danube Swabians. Most of the former German settlers were expelled to Germany and Austria...
German) Banat Swabian in Banat, Romania (considered a variant of German) Luxembourgish as well as Transylvanian Saxon and Banat Swabian are based on Moselle...
in 1061. The Hohenzollern family split into two branches, the Catholic Swabian branch and the Protestant Franconian branch, which ruled the Burgraviate...
Bukovina Germans Historical coat of arms of the Banat Swabians Historical coat of arms of the Sathmar Swabians Historical coat of arms of the Dobrujan Germans...
between Hungary, Croatia and Serbia, and were known as Danube Swabians. The Danube Swabians developed their own distinct culture and dialect. There were...
also called Danube Swabians (German: Donauschwaben, Hungarian: dunai svábok), many of whom call themselves "Shwoveh" in their own Swabian dialect. There are...
The Swabian children (German: Schwabenkinder) were peasant children from poor families in the Alps of Austria and Switzerland who went to find work on...
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