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'''''Transylvanian Saxons.''''' In the late 1100s settlers from Flanders, Luxembourg, Mosel (now France), and the Rhineland region of Germany settled in the crook of the Carpathian mountains of eastern Hungary. | '''''Transylvanian Saxons.''''' In the late 1100s settlers from Flanders, Luxembourg, Mosel (now France), and the Rhineland region of Germany settled in the crook of the Carpathian mountains of eastern Hungary. | ||
'''''Volga Germans.''''' Among the earliest and largest German settlements. A largely Catholic group of settlers founded large colonies along both sides of the Volga River north and south of Saratov city in the Saratov and Samara provinces of Russia between 1764 and 1768. After 1874 many Volga Germans emigrated to Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. Over 150,000 Volga Germans still in Russia died of starvation from 1920 to 1923 following the Russia Civil War. | '''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_germans Volga] Germans.''''' Among the earliest and largest German settlements. A largely Catholic group of settlers founded large colonies along both sides of the Volga River north and south of Saratov city in the Saratov and Samara provinces of Russia between 1764 and 1768. After 1874 many Volga Germans emigrated to Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. Over 150,000 Volga Germans still in Russia died of starvation from 1920 to 1923 following the Russia Civil War. | ||
'''''Volhynian Germans.''''' 1816 saw the first German settlements in eastern Volhynia, Ukraine. Germans who had previously settled in Poland migrated to Lutsk and Rovno in Volhynia in 1831 and 1832. A much larger group of almost entirely Evangelical Lutheran Germans settled in western Volhynia between 1860 and 1875 without the benefits granted earlier German settlers. They rented or bought their land from Polish nobles. In 1897 there were 170,000 Volhynian Germans. Volhynian Germans helped settle Michigan, Wisconsin, and western Canada. | '''''Volhynian Germans.''''' 1816 saw the first German settlements in eastern Volhynia, Ukraine. Germans who had previously settled in Poland migrated to Lutsk and Rovno in Volhynia in 1831 and 1832. A much larger group of almost entirely Evangelical Lutheran Germans settled in western Volhynia between 1860 and 1875 without the benefits granted earlier German settlers. They rented or bought their land from Polish nobles. In 1897 there were 170,000 Volhynian Germans. Volhynian Germans helped settle Michigan, Wisconsin, and western Canada. | ||
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'''''Zipser Germans''''' settled near the Carpathian mountains in northern Hungary in the 12th Century. They are not Germans from Russia. | '''''Zipser Germans''''' settled near the Carpathian mountains in northern Hungary in the 12th Century. They are not Germans from Russia. | ||
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