Dresden ( ) is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

Torgau is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany.

Celle () is a district ( Landkreis ) in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Emden is a town and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems.

Osnabrück ( archaic ) is a city in the federal state Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany.

This settlement was the condition of his marriage on 5 August 1764 with Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain, daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony.

It was succeeded by the Free State of Saxe Weimar Eisenach, which was merged into the new state of Thuringia two years later.

Ernst (Meissen, 24 March 1441 26 August 1486 in Colditz) was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486.

He was descended from a noble family which had originally sprung from the Mark of Brandenburg, and of which one branch had been for over 300 years settled in Saxony.

East Frisia or Eastern Friesland (German Ostfriesland East Frisian Low Saxon Oostfreesland ) is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony.

The bombing of Dresden was an American and British attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre.

The German federal state of Saxony and the Czech Republic were not as affected, because in the four years after the record floodings of 2002, the two partners built a stronger levee system along the Elbe.

The early history of the mineral schorl shows that the name schorl was in use prior to 1400 because a village known today as Zschorlau (in Saxony, Germany) was then named Schorl (or minor variants of this name).

It was an Imperial State in its own right, with a vote in the Reichstag , for much of the 17th century until the extinction of its ruling line in 1672 when it was inherited by Ernest I the Pious, the Duke of Saxe Gotha, who had married the heiress.