While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich.

Johannes Aventinus ( 1477 – 1534 ) is the city's most famous son, the founder of the study of history in Bavaria.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

On the left are the blue and white rhombuses of Bavaria, while the right half is split into two sliver and black triangles.

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

* 1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

In Ansbach Maximilian von Montgelas wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organisation of Bavaria, which is known as the " Ansbacher Mémoire ".

Next to the market place is the Old Town Hall, built in 1737 in Rococo style, under the rule of Clemens August of Bavaria.

However, there is no longer any real evidence that the rulers of Bavaria belonged to a people called the Bavarii.

Their memory also survives in the modern regional names of Bohemia ( Boiohaemum ), a mixed-language form from boio-and Proto-Germanic * haimaz, " home ": " home of the Boii ," and ' Bayern ', Bavaria, which is derived from the Germanic Baiovarii tribe ( Germ.

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

Bamberg () is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main.

The Christian Social Union of Bavaria () is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany.

In Germany, for instance, coalition government is the norm, as it is rare for either the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CDU / CSU ) or the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) to win an unqualified majority in a national election.

Dachau () is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany ( Dokow in English ).

It is a major district town — a Große Kreisstadt — of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km ( less than eleven miles ) north-west of Munich.

In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken.

Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber ( born 28 September 1941 ) is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union ( CSU ).

He enjoys considerably more support in his home state of Bavaria than in the rest of Germany, where CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel is more popular.

On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.

That same year, Formosus died, leaving Lambert once again in power, and both he and Berengar killed any officials who had been put in place by Arnulf, as Ratold also fled from Milan to Bavaria.

When, after the death of Emperor Otto I in 973, a struggle for the supremacy in Germany began, both Dobrawa's husband and brother Boleslav II the Pious, Duke of Bohemia, supported the same candidate for the German throne, Duke Henry II of Bavaria.

Other electors were added in the 17th century, including the Duke of Bavaria ( referred to as the Elector of Bavaria — replacing the Count Palatine of the Rhine, who was of the same family but had lost his title and vote temporarily during the Thirty Years ' War ), and the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( the Elector of Hanover-an office subsequently held by three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain, George I, George II, and George III ).

The Palatinate and Bavaria were originally held by the same individual, but in 1253, they were divided between two members of the House of Wittelsbach.

The other electors refused to allow two princes from the same dynasty to have electoral rights, so a heated rivalry arose between the Count Palatine and the Duke of Bavaria.

But at the same time Carloman, king of Bavaria and the East Mark, has also crossed the Alps into eastern Lombardy at the head of a powerful army.

As Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to do the same, Conrad deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.

The Landtag of Bavaria rejected the Basic Law mainly because it was seen as not granting sufficient powers to the individual Länder, but at the same time decided that it would still come into force in Bavaria if two-thirds of the other Länder ratified it.

Commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1808 and finished in 1832 a statue of Adonis is one of the few works in marble carved solely by Thorvaldsen's own hand, and at the same time it is one of the works that is closest to the antique Greek ideals.

After visiting several locations, he found Lone Butte to be the ideal location for a new abbey, and shortly afterwards ministered to several local Roman Catholic parishes, about the same time large numbers of immigrants from Bavaria settled in the area.

Walhalla began as a settlement of German immigrants who left from Hamburg, Germany and Bavaria with some English, Scots and Irish who came over in the same ship.

The crisis in the relations of Bavaria with the Reich ( August – September 1921 ) which ended in von Kahr's resignation was a further phase of the same trouble.

On the same day as the Battle of Amberg, Moreau inflicted a sharp defeat on Latour at the Battle of Friedberg in Bavaria.

At the same time, Aquitaine and Bavaria were granted to his brothers Pippin and Louis, respectively, as subsidiary kingdoms.

Ambassadors of the Great Powers urged King Otto not to resist, and the king and queen took refuge on a British warship and returned to Bavaria the same way they had come to Greece ( aboard a British warship ), taking with them the Greek royal regalia which he had brought from Bavaria in 1832.

The Duchy of Schleswig was originally an integrated part of Denmark, but was in medieval times established as a fief under the Kingdom of Denmark, with the same relation to the Danish Crown as for example Brandenburg or Bavaria had to the Holy Roman Emperor.

Paul Mauser created two different variations of the same rifle, one with a stock strengthened with a barrel shroud and a traditional design following the layout of the 71 series in hope he might be able to overturn the commission's decision, or at least sell his design to the Kingdom of Bavaria, which adopted its own arms.

The same year, the Centre's Georg Count Hertling, formerly Ministers-President of Bavaria, was appointed Chancellor, but he could not overcome the dominance of the military leadership of Hindenburg and Ludendorff.

Around 900 it was probably owned by the ( originally ) Lower Pannonian prince Braslav ( Bräslav, Brazlaw )-or by a magnate of the same name-who was a vassal of Bavaria ( Germany ).