Saxons: Confederation, Germanic Peoples, Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Germans, Saxony Anhalt, Anglo Saxon Settlement of Britain, Old Shore

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Saxons were a confederation of Old Germanic tribes. Their modern-day descendants in Lower Saxony and Westphalia and other German states are considered ethnic Germans (the state of Sachsen is not inhabited by ethnic Saxons; the state of Sachsen-Anhalt though in its northern and western parts); those in the eastern Netherlands are considered to be ethnic Dutch; those in north eastern Belgium are considered to be ethnic Flemish; those in northern France are considered to be ethnic French; and those in Southern England ethnic English (see Anglo-Saxons). Their earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein.