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Saxony is a historical region in Germany and a federal state.
Saxony may also refer to:
Other current German states
Historical 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 state in Germany; successively a member of the Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederation, North German Confederation and German Empire
 - Gau Saxony (1926–45), an administrative division of Nazi 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 World War II
 - FV Sachsen, a sealer built in 1938, requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940 as German weather ship WBS 11 Hessen
 
Other
- Upper Saxony, name given to German lands held by the House of Wettin in what is now called Central Germany
 - Saxony (duck), breed of duck
 - Saxony (wine region), the wine region of Saxony
 - Saxony Hotel, in Miami Beach, Florida, US
 - Saxony Mill, building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockville, Connecticut, US
 - 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
 - Saxony (group), a short-lived Australian musical group of the mid-1970s
 
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
 - Saxe (disambiguation)
 - 13th Mechanized Infantry Division
 
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