Group
Bavarians (West Germanic tribe)
Bavarians (Bavarian: Boarn, Standard German: Bayern) comprise an ethnographic group of Germans of the Bavaria region, a state within Germany.
The group's dialect or speech is known as the Bavarian language, native to Altbayern ("Old Bavaria"), roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the seventeeth century.Like the neighboring Swabians and Austrians, Bavarians are traditionally Catholic.
In much of Altbayern, membership in the Catholic church remains above 70%, and the center-right Christian Social Union in Bavaria (successor of the Bavarian People's Party of 1919–1933) has traditionally been the strongest party in the Landtag as well as the party of all Ministers-President of Bavaria since 1946, with the single exception of Wilhelm Hoegner, 1954–1957.
Member Cities
- Freising Bayern Germany Location
- Metz Lorraine France Location
- Passau Bayern Germany Location
- Pavia Lombardia Italy Location
- Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic Location
- Ratisbon > Regensburg Bayern Germany Location
- Regensburg Bayern Germany Location
- Salurn > Salorno Trentino-Alto Adige Italy Location
- Salzburg Salzburg Austria Location
- Udine Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy Location