Ostmark is a modern German translation of the term Ostarrîchi, a 10th-century Germanic vernacular for marchia Orientalis ("eastern march") that appears in a single contemporary document. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Ostarrîchi is an Old High German name first found in the famous Ostarrîchi document of 996, where it refers to the Margraviate ruled by the Babenberg There were in fact two marches called marchia Orientalis: the Saxon Ostmark and the Bavarian Ostmark. The Saxon Eastern March or Ostmark (Sächsische Ostmark was a march of the Holy Roman Empire from the 10th until the 12th century The March or Margraviate of Austria was created in 976 out of the territory that probably formed the earlier March of Pannonia.

The term "Ostmark" itself, a concise but a historical 19th-century translation of marchia orientalis, was revived by the Nazis after the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany (Anschluss), as they wanted to purge any Austrian identity separate from the Altreich. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Großdeutschland ( German for "Greater Germany" or "Large Germany" is a term referring to the concept of one German Nation-state The ( German: "link-up" also known as the, was the 1938 Annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi Altreich ("Old Empire" is a German term used from 1938 to 1945 for the territories that were part of the Third Reich in 1937 as opposed to Austria In 1942, the term was officially replaced by "Alpen-Donau-Reichsgaue" or "Donau- und Alpenreichsgaue" (Alpine and Danubian Territories) in order to avoid any connotation of Austrian particularity and specific relationship among the territories making up Austria.

See also

• German Eastern Marches Society
• Army Group Ostmark

Army Group Ostmark ( Heeresgruppe Ostmark) was a German army group formed very late in World War II.

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