Saxe, meaning “Saxon,” may refer to:
Places
Germany
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Saxe-Lauenburg
The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (, ), was a ''reichsfrei'' duchy that existed from 1296 to 1803 and again from 1814 to 1876 in the extreme southeast region of what is now Schleswig-Holstein. Its territorial centre was in the modern district of Herz ...
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Saxe-Wittenberg
The Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg () was a medieval duchy of the Holy Roman Empire centered at Wittenberg, which emerged after the dissolution of the stem duchy of Saxony. The Ascanian dukes prevailed in obtaining the Saxon electoral dignity until ...
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Saxe-Altenburg
Saxe-Altenburg () was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in present-day Thuringia. It was one of the smallest of the German states with an area of 1323 square kilometers and a population of 207,000 (190 ...
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Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg () was a duchy held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in today's Bavaria, Germany.
History
Ernestine Line
When Henry IV, Count of Henneberg – Schleusingen, died in 1347, the possessions of the House of Henneberg ...
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Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (), or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( ), was an Ernestine duchy in Thuringia ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It lasted from 1826 to ...
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Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach
Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach was a duchy within the Holy Roman Empire. It existed during two fairly short periods: 1572-1596 and 1633-1638. Its territory was part of the modern states of Bavaria and Thuringia.
History
The duchy was created by the Di ...
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Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld () was one of the Ernestine duchies, Saxon Duchies held by the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin. Established in 1699, the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield line lasted until the reshuffle of the Ernestine territories that occurred f ...
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Saxe-Eisenach
Saxe-Eisenach () was an Ernestine duchy ruled by the Saxon House of Wettin. The state intermittently existed at three different times in the Thuringian region of the Holy Roman Empire. The chief town and capital of all three duchies was Eisenach ...
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Saxe-Eisenberg
The Duchy of Saxe-Eisenberg was one of the Saxon Duchies held by the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin.
History
Established in 1680 for Christian, fifth son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, the Duchy consisted of Eisenberg and the towns ...
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Saxe-Gotha
Saxe-Gotha () was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine duchies, Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin, Wettin dynasty in the former Landgraviate of Thuringia. The ducal residence was erected at Gotha (town), Gotha.
History
The duch ...
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Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg () was a duchy ruled by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in today's Thuringia, Germany. The extinction of the line in 1825 led to a major re-organisation of the Thuringian states.
History
In 1640 the sons of the ...
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Saxe-Hildburghausen
Saxe-Hildburghausen () was an Ernestine duchy and Imperial Estate of the Holy Roman Empire in the southern side of the present State of Thuringia in Germany. It existed from 1680 to 1826 but its name and borders are currently used by the Distri ...
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Saxe-Jena
The Duchy of Saxe-Jena was one of the Saxon Duchies held by the Ernestine line of the Wettin Dynasty. Established in 1672 for Bernhard, fourth son of Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Jena was reincorporated into Saxe-Weimar on the extincti ...
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Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Meiningen ( ; ) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine duchies, Ernestine line of the House of Wettin, located in the southwest of the present-day Germany, German state of Thuringia.
Established in 1681, by partition of the Ern ...
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Saxe-Römhild
Saxe-Römhild () was an Ernestine duchy in the southern foothills of the Thuringian Forest. It existed for only 30 years, from 1680 to 1710.
History
After the duke of Saxe-Gotha, Ernest the Pious, died on 26 March 1675 in Gotha, the duchy wa ...
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Saxe-Saalfeld
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Saxe-Weimar
Saxe-Weimar () was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in present-day Thuringia. The chief town and capital was Weimar. The Weimar branch was the most genealogically senior extant branch of the House of W ...
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Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach () was a German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised to a grand duchy in 1815 by resolutio ...
United States
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Saxe, Virginia
Saxe is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Charlotte County, Virginia, Charlotte County, Virginia, United States. Saxe is southwest of Drakes Branch, Virginia, Drakes Branch. Saxe has a post office with ZIP code 23967, which ope ...
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Saxe (surname) Saxe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Adrian Saxe (born 1943), American ceramist.
*David Saxe (judge), David B. Saxe (born 1942), American judge.
*David Saxe (born 1969), American theatrical producer.
*Edward Saxe (1916–200 ...
* ''Porcelaine de Saxe'', the French name for
Meissen porcelain
Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first Europe, European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's ...
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Sachs Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from Saxony". Sachs is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant Zaks, supposedly in reference to the Hebrew phrase ''Zera Kodesh Shemo'' (ZaKS), ...
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Sachse (disambiguation)
Sachse may refer to:
*Sachse, Texas
*People from Saxony ()
*Anna Sachse-Hofmeister (1850–1904), Austrian opera singer
*Arthur Sachse (1860–1920), Australian politician
*Edward Sachse (1804-1873), artist and lithographer
*Emma Sachse (1887–196 ...
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Sacks (surname) Sacks is a German surname meaning "man from Saxony" and may refer to:
* Alan Sacks, US television producer
* Andrew Sacks, US attorney
* C. Jared Sacks, US founder of Channel Classics Records
* David O. Sacks (b. 1972), South Africa-born US inte ...
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Saks (disambiguation)
Saks can refer to:
* Saks (surname)
* Saks, Alabama, a community in the United States
* Saks, Inc., holding company of Saks Fifth Avenue
*Saks Fifth Avenue, U.S. luxury department store
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Sax (disambiguation)
Sax or SAX may refer to:
* Saxophone (or sax), a family of woodwind instruments
People
* Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
* Oett M. Mallard (1915–1986), also known as Sax Mallard, Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader
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Saxony (disambiguation)
Saxony is a historical region in Germany and a federal state.
Saxony may also refer to:
Other current German states
*Saxony-Anhalt
*Lower Saxony
Historical German states
* Old Saxony (unknown–785), tribal territory of the Saxons
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Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)
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Zaks (disambiguation)
Zaks are a construction toy.
Zaks may also refer to:
* Zaks (surname)
* Zak's, a bus company in England
*"The Zaks", the first published name for the Dr. Seuss story " The Zax"
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*Sachs
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Zax (disambiguation) Zax may refer to:
*Andy Zax (active since c. 1999), music producer, historian, and information archivist
*"The Zax", a story by Dr. Seuss
*Zax (Duke Power), a cartoon character used to educate children
*Zax (tool), used for pruning slate roofing til ...
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