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the modern state of Thuringia was enlarged in 1946.
With what? Erfurt and Schmalkalden came to Thuringia already in 1944. I can't find anything else. Fransvannes 15:40 Feb 13, 2003 (UTC)

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• Thuringia (and the neighboring state of Saxony) was also the major "stomping-ground" of the family of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Sources indicate that the Bach family returned to this area after residing in provinces which lay much farther East. There were supposedly contact with Hungarians and other Eastern Europeans.

In my own experience: My father's family also came to Bavaria (Nuremberg) via Thuringia and Saxony. Our family name is Weissflach, but there were other variations which were consistent with a migration from the East - the same route followed by the Bach family as it returned to its roots from further East. Variations of the name may be found on graves in Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz. Some of the variations: Weiszflug (a somewhat Slavic spelling, with the "z"), Weissflug, Weisflog and others.

In ancient times, the Scythians migrated into this part of Europe, orginating from the Caucasus Moutains near the Black Sea. Upon reaching Europe, the migration of Scythians split near the region which is now Poland. One branch went North into Poland and Scandinavia. The other branch spread West, terminating in Thuringia. The genome of the Scythians may have permeated and assimilated into the later Germanic peoples of the region quite directly.

The city of Gera in Thuringia has an ancient past; The city appears in an atlas of Greek & Roman influence in ancient Europe - but no other towns appeared on the map of that time-period. Gera was represented almost as an outpost. It was the farthest and most remote city on the map, but of course this only represented Greek & Roman influence.

The name Gera is not German. Suspecting a Roman influence, I looked up the word in Latin, but this produced null results. Next, I looked up the word in a Greek dictionary: G=Gamma, E=Epsilon, R=Rho, A=Alpha... I found a word which was virtually identical. Gera means similar to "prize" or "privilege". It would seem then that my assumptions were in fact somewhat true about Gera being an outpost. It would also seem to fit the name, insinuating that the settlement of Gera was privilege of sorts, perhaps as the result of a treaty between the newcomers and the resident Frankish tribes of Thuringia.

                             -F.J. Weissflach; 06.01.2004-

What means this? I live in Gera, wrote an article about ist history and never heard of such stuff. Gera - a Greek word? I know that the name is quite old (before the Slavic immigration) but I alwais heard it came from the Germanic Ger Aha = "wedge river" or "scree river"! Gera ... Greek ... The atlas you speak of ... is it old or new? --slg 19:09, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

PS: 1) Why do you call Gera a "small city" - it has more than 100,000 inhabitants! 2) Kann man Deutsch mit dir reden? --slg 19:09, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] I've merged in Saxon Duchies

An anon wrote an article, Saxon Duchies which I've merged into the text of the history section of this article. It includes a list of the duchies, which is slightly different than the list currently in the article. Someone knowledgeable about the subject needs to fix this. JesseW 05:44, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm not an expert, but I've been doing some research, and just created an article for Saxe-Weimar (pre-Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach). I hope to also create articles for Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Jena. I made the spelling of all the Saxon duchies consistent on 'Saxe-', and added links to their articles for the ones that were not already linked. The Saxon duchies were a rather fluid set of territories belonging to the extended Wettin family that were divided up and re-combined repeatedly, so that, to me anyway, it is very difficult to give a coherent account of their histories. - Dalbury 17:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Someone kindly linked my Saxe-Weimar article to the German and Spanish equivalents. There is a great deal of material on the Ernestine (Saxe-) duchies in German and Spanish. I'll start with the Spanish version, as my Spanish is better than my German. - Dalbury 19:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I fixed it up a bit. I removed Schwarzburg and Reuss from the list of Ernestine Saxon duchies, since they didn't belong to those -- they just happened to be in the same general area. If anyone wants a complete list of the Ernestine duchies, there is one at de:Ernestinische Herzogtümer. --Chl 14:52, 26 October 2005 (UTC)