page_title: Swabia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Swabia / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das Herzogtum Schwaben/Alamannien und das Königreich Hochburgund im 10. JahrhundertEnglish: A map (in German) of the Duchy of Alamannia and the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy in the 10th century.
context_page_description: Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.
  The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, whose inhabitants interchangeably were called Alemanni or Suebi.
  This territory would include all of the Alemannic German area, but the modern concept of Swabia is more restricted, due to the collapse of the duchy of Swabia in the thirteenth 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, now divided between the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
  Swabians are the natives of Swabia and speakers of Swabian German. Their number was estimated at close to 0.8 million by SIL Ethnologue as of 2006, compared to a total population of 7.5 million in the regions of Tübingen, Stuttgart and Bavarian Swabia.
caption: Duchy of Swabia around AD 1000 shown in gold yellow including (present-day) Alsace, the southern part of Baden-Württemberg, Bavarian Swabia, Vorarlberg in Austria, Liechtenstein, eastern Switzerland and small parts of northern Italy. In green: Upper Burgundy.
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