Swabia

Swabia (German: Schwaben) is both a historic and linguistic (see Swabian German) region in Germany. Swabia consists largely of the present-day state of Baden-W?rttemberg, as well as the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia. In the Middle Ages, Vorarlberg, the modern principality of Liechtenstein and most of modern Switzerland and Alsace (nowadays belonging to France) were also considered to be a part of Swabia.

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The people of Swabia have been the target of many jokes and stories where they are depicted as excessively frugal, overly serious, prudish, or as simpletons, for instance in "The Seven Swabians" (Die sieben Schwaben) published in Kinder- und Hausm?rchen by the Brothers Grimm. Similar jokes are often made by the French toward Belgians, Australians toward New Zealanders, or Canadians towards Newfoundlanders.

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Swabian German: Swabian (Schw?bisch) is one of the Alemannic dialects of High German, spoken in the region Swabia. Swabia covers much of Germany's southwestern Land (state) of Baden-W?rttemberg (including the capital Stuttgart and in the rural area known as the Swabian Alb) and in the southwest of the Land Bavaria....