The Limes Saxoniae (Latin for "Limit of Saxony"; see Limes), also known as the Sachsenwall ("Saxon Wall") was a border established c. 810 between the Saxons and the Slavic Obotrites of presenty-day Schleswig-Holstein. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... A limes is a Roman wall marking the boundaries of the Roman Empire. ... Map showing the Saxons homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers: Weser, Eider, and Elbe Src: Freemans Historical Geographys. The Saxons or Saxon people are (nowadays) part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German Federal States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony... The Obotrites (sometimes Abodrites, Obodrites) were a group of Slavic peoples who had in the 6th century settled in the regions later known as Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein in what is now north-eastern Germany. ... Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ...
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