The Ottonian Empire, with the March of Zeitz (hatched), in the tenth century.

The March of Zeitz (German: Mark Zeitz) was a frontier county of the Holy Roman Empire and one of the divisions of the marca Geronis made by the Emperor Otto I in 965 on the death of Gero the Great. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Mark from the Old English mearc and march (or various plural forms of these words derived from the Frankish word marka ("boundary" The Holy Roman Empire ( HRE; German Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR, Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium (SRI was a union of territories in The Marca Geronis ("march of Gero" was a vast super-march in the middle of the tenth century Otto I the Great ( 23 November 912 &ndash 7 May 973) son of Henry I the Fowler and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke Gero I (c 900 &ndash 20 May 965) called the Great (Latin magnus) ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg Its capital was Zeitz. Zeitz is a town in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which is situated on the river Weiße Elster in the middle of the triangle of the federal states Its first and only margrave was Wigger. Wigger I (died 981 was the father of a line of counts ruling from his new castle of Bilstein, west of Albungen (today part of Eschwege) to the Werra In 982, Zeitz was reunited with the marches of Meissen and Merseburg under Ricdag, who thus temporarily reunited all of the southern marca Geronis save the Saxon Ostmark. The March or Margraviate of Meissen (Mark(grafschaft Meißen was a mediæval principality a march, of the Holy Roman Empire in the area of the modern The Marca Geronis ("march of Gero" was a vast super-march in the middle of the tenth century Rikdag, Ricdag, Riddag, or Rihdag (died 985 was the Margrave of Meissen (or Thuringia from 979 until his death The Saxon Eastern March or Ostmark (Sächsische Ostmark was a march of the Holy Roman Empire from the 10th until the 12th century In 983, Zeitz was overrun by the Sorbs and the marcher territory fell into the hands of the Slavs. Sorbs (Serbja Serby also known as Wends, Lusatian Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs, are a Slavic people settled in Lusatia Nevertheless, the march of Zeitz, along with the later March of Lusatia, was a recurring division of the Meissen march during the reign of the Emperor Henry II. The March of Lusatia (Mark Lausitz was a conquered territory of the Ljutizi and Milzini between Germany and Poland in the 10th and 11th centuries Saint Henry II ( May 6, 973 &ndash July 13, 1024) called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy

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