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The imperial power was at that time already weakened (see below) and played only a minor role. Sometimes, as in 1149, the military expansion took the form of a crusade. In the central and southern parts of the modern GDR, already conquered under Otto I, the Slavic political structures were annihilated, but in the north, in Mecklenburg and Pomerania, Slavic principalities survived and were incorporated into the empire as such. The ruling dynasty in Mecklenburg, of Slavic descent, governed right up to 1918.
In Germany the Alamans gradually occupied the whole southwest and passed around AD 450 over the Rhine into Alsace and climbed up the Alpine valleys. East of them, the Bavarians settled. These expansions were presumably mostly a matter of peaceful osmosis, accompanied, though, by military raids. Organized settlements with the approval of the Roman authorities also played an important role. 12 Alamans and Bavarians could completely assimilate the remainder of the Celtic and Roman populations. The many Celtic loan words in the modern German language (especially in Bavarian dialect) are modern relics of this cultural melange.
Therefore, the modern milieux will be called 'soft milieux', as opposed to the traditional 'hard' ones divided by cleavages. 1 Germany by 1900: the national frame. sity. These can be visualized with the help of some graphic models. 1 we start with the time around 1900 and use a simple cube as a model for Germany. The cube simplifies the geography- we are looking to Germany, so to speak from the northern tip of Scotland: the nearest side is north, south is in the background, west accordingly on the right and east on the left.