Saxony

The Free State o Saxony ( ; ) is a landlockit state o Germany, contingent wi Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringie, Bavarie, the Czech Republic an Poland. It is the tent-lairgest German state in aurie, wi (, an the saxt maist-populous (4.3 million) o Germany's saxteen states.

Locatit in the middle o an erstwhile German-speakin pairt o Europe, the history o the state o Saxony spans mair nor a millennium. It haes been a medieval duchy, an electorate o the Holy Roman Empire, a kinrick an frae 1918 tae 1952, an then again frae 1990, a republic.

The aurie o the modren state o Saxony shoud no be ramfeeselt wi Auld Saxony, the aurie inhabitit bi Saxons. Auld Saxony corresponds approximately tae the modren German states o Lawer Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt an the Westphalie pairt o North Rhine-Westphalie.

 Geography 
 Admeenistration 
Sachsen is dividit intae three Direktionsbezirke — Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig — which are subdividit intae 10 destricts:
  1. Bautzen (BZ)
  2. Erzgebirgskreis (ERZ)
  3. Görlitz (GR)
  4. Leipzig (L)
  5. Meißen (MEI)(Meissen)
  6. Mittelsachsen (FG)
  7. Nordsachsen (TDO)
  8. Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (PIR)
  9. Vogtlandkreis (V)
10. Zwickau (Z)

The Erzgebirgskreis destrict covers the Ore Muntains, an the Schweiz-Osterzgebirge destrict is Saxon Swisserland an the Eastren Ore Muntains.

In addition there are three urban destricts (), which an aw hae destrict status:

 Chemnitz (C)
 Dresden (DD)
 Leipzig (L)

 References 

 Freemit airtins 

 Offeecial govrenmental portal
 Christmas time in Saxony
 some facts aboot Saxony
 some stories about Dresden Neustadt - The Caipital o Saxony

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