Low Saxon

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Low Saxon or Lower Saxon may refer to:

Geography

• Lower Saxony, a State in the Federal Republic of Germany
• Lower Saxony, the name for the duchy Saxe-Lauenburg between the 14th and 17th centuries
• Lower Saxon Circle, a territory of the Holy Roman Empire, which existed from 1500 to 1806

Linguistics

• Low German, an Ingvaeonic West Germanic language
  • West Low German, a group of Low German dialects spoken in the Netherlands, Lower Saxony and most of Schleswig-Holstein
    • Northern Low Saxon, the dialect spoken in the Northern parts of the Low Saxon language area
    • Dutch Low Saxon, a group of West Low German dialects recognized as a minority language by the European Union

Other uses

• Lower Saxon cuisine, a range of regional North German culinary traditions
• Lower Saxon house, a type of German timber-framed house
• Lower Saxon Landtag, the Parliament of Lower Saxony
• Lower Saxon Mill Road, a holiday route that guides visitors to windmills and watermills in Lower Saxony

See also

• Old Saxony, the larger region of which Lower Saxony is a part
• Upper Saxon, a Central German dialect
• Upper Saxony, historic lands in Central Germany