He was defeated near Augsburg in 743 but continued to rule until his death in 748. Odilo issued a Lex Baiuvariorum for Bavaria, completed the process of church organization in partnership with Saint Boniface in 739, and tried to intervene in Frankish succession disputes by fighting for the claims of the Carolingian dynasty. Ĭontemporary Bavaria also includes parts of the historical regions of Franconia and Swabia.Īt Hugbert's death in 735 the duchy passed to Odilo of Bavaria from the neighboring Alemannia. The state also has the second largest economy among the German states by GDP figures, giving it a status as a wealthy German region. īavaria has a certain culture, largely because of the state's Catholic heritage and conservative traditions, which includes a language, cuisine, architecture, festivals and elements of Alpine symbolism. It was later incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire, became an independent kingdom after 1806, joined the Prussian-led German Empire in 1871 while retaining its title of kingdom, and finally became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. It became the Duchy of Bavaria (a stem duchy) in the 6th century AD following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Raetia and Noricum.
Bavaria's main cities are Munich (its capital and largest city and also the third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg. With over 13 million inhabitants, it is the second largest German state in terms of population only to North Rhine-Westphalia, but due to its large size its population density is below the German average.
With an area of 70,550.19 km 2 (27,239.58 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany.
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Bavaria ( / b ə ˈ v ɛər i ə/ bə- VAIR-ee-ə German: Bayern ( listen)), officially the Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern ( listen) Bavarian: Freistoot Bayern), is a state in the south-east of Germany.
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