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A Gau (plural Gaue) is a German term for a region within a country, often a (former or actual) province. It was used in medieval times, when it can be seen as roughly corresponding to an English shire, and was revived as an administrative subdivision during the period of Nazi rule in Germany. A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain and Australia. ...
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The Gau in the medieval period
Originally a Gau was an old Frankish term for a politico-geographical division of a nation. The word is the German gloss of the Latin pagus, and hence the Gau is analogous with the pays of feudal France. Cognate equivalents are Gouw in Dutch, Go in Frisian, Gô in Old Saxon. For other uses, see Franks (disambiguation). ...
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Frisian is a Germanic group of closely related languages, spoken by about half a million members of Frisian ethnic groups living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. ...
Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German, is a Germanic language. ...
In the German-speaking lands east of the Rhine, the Gau formed the unit of administration of the Carolingian empire during the ninth and tenth centuries. Many evolved into what would become known as a Grafschaft, the territory of a graf or count; counts were originally an appointed governor, but the position became in time a hereditary vassal princedom, or fiefdom. Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...
Also see: France in the Middle Ages. ...
As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was that century that lasted from 801 to 900. ...
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...
Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count (derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own) or a British earl (an Anglo-Saxon title derived from the Viking title Jarl). ...
A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is also still a countess (for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). ...
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Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, often consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a form of allegiance, originally often to give him the means to fulfill his military duties when called upon. ...
The Gau during the Nazi period The term Gau was revived in the 1920s as the name given to the administrative regions of the Nazi Party. With Germany's annexation of neighbouring territories beginning in the late 1930s, a new unit of civil administration, the Reichsgau, was also created. The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: , or NSDAP), generally known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ...
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The Nazi Party Gaue The Gau was the main administrative region of the NSDAP (Nazi Party), created by a party statute dated May 22, 1926. Each Gau was headed by a Gauleiter. The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...
May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ...
1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ...
By 1938 all of Germany was divided into around thirty Gaue. Following the suppression of the political institutions of the Länder (states) in 1934, the Gaue had become the de facto administrative region of government, and each individual Gauleiter had considerable power within his territory. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Bundesland (plural Bundesländer), also known as Land (plural Länder) is the German language name for the federal states of Austria and Germany. ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The original 32 Gaue were generally coterminous with the pre-existing Länder and Prussian provinces. Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 Prussia (German: ; Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Lithuanian: ; Polish: ; Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in East Prussia, an area which for centuries had substantial influence on German and European history. ...
After the successful invasion of France in 1940, the Alsace-Lorraine was re-annexed by Germany. The former département of Moselle was incorporated into the Gau of Saar-Palatinate, while Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin were incorporated into Baden Gau. Similarly, the formerly independent state of Luxembourg was annexed to Koblenz-Trier, and the Belgian territories of Eupen and Malmedy were incorporated into Cologne-Aachen. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
Imperial Province of Elsaß-Lothringen Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsaß-Lothringen) was a territory that used to be disputed between France and Germany, but is currently a part of France and has been since World War II. The territory, composed of Alsace and parts of Lorraine, belonged to...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Moselle is a département in the northeast of France named after the Moselle River. ...
History The département was created on March 4, 1790, during the French Revolution. ...
Haut-Rhin is a French département, named after the Rhine river. ...
St Nikolaus church in Eupen Eupen is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège, 15 km from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the nature reservation Hohes Venn (Ardennes). ...
Malmedy Cathedral, built in 1777 Malmedy is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. ...
The Reichsgaue - Main article: Reichsgau
German-speaking territories annexed to Germany from 1938 were generally organised into Reichsgaue. Unlike the pre-existing Gaue, the new Reichsgaue formally combined the spheres of both party and civil administration. A Reichsgau was a province within the Greater Germany of 1938 to 1945 (from the start of territorial annexation to the fall of the Third Reich). ...
Following the annexation of Austria in 1938, the country, briefly renamed "Ostmark", was sub-divided into seven Reichsgaue. These had boundaries broadly the same as the former Austrian Länder (states), with the Tyrol and Vorarlberg being merged as "Tyrol-Vorarlberg", Burgenland being divided between Styria and "Lower Danube" (the re-named Lower Austria). Upper Austria was also re-named "Upper Danube", thus eliminating the name of "Austria" from the official map. A small number of boundary changes were also made, the most significant of which was the massive expansion of Vienna's official territory, at the expense of "Lower Danube". Ostmark (Eastern March) is a modern German term to translate the term Ostarrîchi a vernacular for marcia orientalis that appears in a single later 10th century document. ...
The Tyrol is a historical region in Western Central Europe, which includes the Austrian state of Tyrol (consisting of North Tyrol and East Tyrol) and the Italian regions known as the South Tyrol and Trentino. ...
Vorarlberg is the westernmost state (Land) of Austria. ...
Styria redirects here. ...
Map of Lower Austria showing districts and the four quarters (Waldviertel in green, Weinviertel in red, Mostviertel in yellow and Industrieviertel in blue) Lower Austria (de: Niederösterreich) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer in Austria. ...
Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ...
Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...
Northern and eastern territory annexed from the dismembered Czechoslovakia were mainly organised as the Reichsgau of Sudetenland, with territory to the south annexed to the Reichsgaue of Lower and Upper Danube. Sudetenland (German; Sudety in Czech and Polish) was the name used in the first half of the 20th century for the regions inhabited mostly by Germans in the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia. ...
Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, territories lost at the Treaty of Versailles, together with some adjacent territory, were re-annexed to Germany as the Reichsgaue of Danzig-Westpreussen (which also incorporated the former Free City of Danzig) and Wartheland. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Central Powers and the German Empire. ...
The Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (Danzig-Westpreussen) was a German administrative unit created in 1939 from Freie Stadt Danzig and Polish Pomerania. ...
Napoleonic-era Danzig 19th century map of Duchy of Warsaw and Free City of Danzig The Free City of Danzig, sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig, was a semi-independent state established by Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars in years 9 September 1807– 22 January 1813/1815. ...
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen) was the name given by Nazis to the largest subdivision of the territory of Greater Poland which was directly incorporated into the German Reich after defeating the Polish army in 1939. ...
Legacy in Topography The medieval term Gau (sometimes Gäu; gouw in Dutch) has survived as (second, more generic) component of the names of certain regions -some named after a river- in Germany, Austria, Alsace, Switzerland and Belgium, e.g. in MEGAN GAU Location Administration Capital Strasbourg Regional President Adrien Zeller (UMP) (since 1996) Départements Bas-Rhin Haut-Rhin Arrondissements 13 Cantons 75 Communes 903 Statistics Land area1 8,280 km² Population (Ranked 14th) - January 1, 2005 est. ...
For other uses, see Aargau (disambiguation). ...
Allgäu is an area in south-west of Swabia (Bavaria) and contains also a small part of south-east Baden-Württemberg. ...
Breisgau is the name of a landscape in southwest Germany, placed between the river Rhine and the foothills of the Black Forest near Freiburg im Breisgau in the state of Baden-Württemberg. ...
The Chiemgau is the name of an area of Bavaria. ...
The Bezirk Salzburg-Umgebung is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, and congruent with the Flachgau, except for the Statutarstadt of Salzburg, which forms a district of its own. ...
Hainaut (Dutch: Henegouwen) is the westernmost province of Wallonia. ...
The Kraichgau is a hilly region in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. ...
The Bezirk Tamsweg is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, and congruent with the Lungau. ...
The Bezirk Zell am See is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, and congruent with the Pinzgau. ...
The Bezirk Sankt Johann im Pongau is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, and congruent with the Pongau. ...
The Rheingau is the hill country on the right side of the Rhine between Wiesbaden and Rüdesheim, reaching from the western Taunus to the Rhine. ...
The Prättigau Valley, in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, is home to the world famous ski resorts of Davos and Klosters. ...
The Bezirk Hallein is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria, and congruent with the Tennengau. ...
Thurgau (Thurgovia) is a canton of Switzerland. ...
Sundgau is a territory situated in the south of the Alsace region (in the eastern part of France). ...
Sources - WorldStatesmen - see various present countries once under Nazi rule; here Belgium
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