Saxony (disambiguation)

Saxony is a federal German state that existed between 1918 and 1934 and it was recreated in 1990.

Saxony may also refer to:

German states

• Old Saxony (unknown–785), tribal territory of the Saxons
• Duchy of Saxony (804–1296), the settlement area of the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages
• Electorate of Saxony (1356–1806), a state of the Holy Roman Empire
• Kingdom of Saxony (1806–1918), a confederacy in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany
• Province of Saxony (1816–1945), a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia

People

• Jordan of Saxony, or Jordan von Sachsen

Ships

• Sachsen-class ironclad (1875)
  • SMS Sachsen (1877), the lead ship of that class
• SMS Sachsen (1916), a Bayern-class battleship
• Sachsen-class frigate, Germany's latest class of highly advanced air-defense frigates
  • German frigate Sachsen (F219), the lead ship of that class
• German weather ship WBS 1 Sachsen, formerly FV Sachsen, a trawler converted to a weather ship during WWII
• FV Sachsen, a sealer built in 1938, requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940 as German weather ship WBS 11 Hessen

Other uses

• Saxony (duck), breed of duck
• Saxony (wine region), the wine region of Saxony
• Saxony Hotel, in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
• Saxony Mill, building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockville, Connecticut, USA
• Sachsen bei Ansbach, town in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany
• Saxony yarn, a fine 3-ply yarn spun from the wool of merino sheep

See also

• Saxon (disambiguation)
• Saxonia (disambiguation)
• Saxons, a confederation of Old Germanic tribes, originally from northern Germany
• History of Saxony
• List of rulers of Saxony
• Saxo Grammaticus
• Saxony-Anhalt, a federal German state
• Lower Saxony, a state in northwestern Germany
• Saxe (disambiguation)
• 13th Mechanized Infantry Division