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The Free State of Saxony is the easternmost federal state of Germany. 

Located in the country's southeast, it is the tenth-largest in area and sixth-largest in population 
among Germany's sixteen states, and has a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4.3 million.

Saxony has a long history as a duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire (the Electorate of Saxony), 
and eventually as a kingdom (the Kingdom of Saxony). 

Its monarchy was overthrown in 1918 and a republican form of government was 
established under its current name subsequent to Germany's defeat in World War I. 

Abolished during communist rule, it was re-established at 3 October 1990 during the 
re-unification of East and West Germany.

During the early Middle Ages the term Saxony referred to the region occupied by today's states 
of Lower Saxony and northern North Rhine-Westphalia. 

The Saxons had migrated there from the area of present-day Schleswig-Holstein 
between 250 and 500.

The term Saxon does not always correlate with Saxony; 
a Saxon is not necessarily an inhabitant of Saxony 
(e.g. Saxon people, Anglo-Saxons or Transylvanian Saxons).

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STATES OF GERMANY

Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hesse
Lower Saxony
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia

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