English Explanatory Dictionary

Danube Swabian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member or descendant of any of the unrelated, usually non-Swabian groups of Germans that settled along the Danube and elsewhere in southeastern Europe (not including the Carpathian Germans or Transylvanian Saxons).

Word forms

Danube Swabian Danube Swabians

Etymology

Although most migrants were not from Swabia, the peoples they settled among (Hungarians, Romanians, etc) often referred to them all as Swabians.

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