A Swabian is a native of Swabia, a place that is located in the south-west region of Germany. The Swabian dialect (please see Swabian language) is a German dialect which is closely related to other German dialects from the same region of southwest Germany: for example, Hunsrückisch, spoken in the Hunsrück region of the Rheinland-Pfaltz) (and in southern Brazil), (please see Riograndenser Hunsrückisch); (also Bairisch, a Germanic language/dialect (depending who you ask), spoken in Bavaria (Bayern).
"It has been evident for a long time that, of all members of all the Germanic tribes, the Swabian is the most difficult to understand and the most mysterious. In him the most intense contradictions are found. Often, in one individual, meet both extreme boldness and amazing timidity, rebelliousness and philistinism, winning kindness and resentful standoffishness, skillfulness and awkwardness, firmness and instability, mistrust and friendliness, soaring idealism and grounded realisticism."
-Fritz Rahn
"Der schwäbische Mensch und seine Mundart" ("The Swabian person and his/her way of speaking")
A Swabian is a native of Swabia, a place that is located in the south-west region of Germany.
"It has been evident for a long time that, of all members of all the Germanic tribes, the Swabian is the most difficult to understand and the most mysterious.
There are many Swabian seattlements outside of the European continent.
The Swabian cities had attained great prosperity under the protection of the Hohenstaufen emperors, but the extinction of that house in 1268 was followed by disintegration.
In 1331, twenty-two Swabian cities, including Ulm, Augsburg, Reutlingen and Heilbronn, formed a league at the instance of the emperor Louis the Bavarian, who in return for their support promised not to mortgage any of them to a vassal.
The defeat of the city league by Eberhard II of Württemberg in 1372, the murder of the captain of the league, and the breach of his obligations by Charles IV, led to the formation of a new league of fourteen Swabian cities led by Ulm in 1376.
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