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the march was also called the Margraviate of Austria or the Bavarian Eastern March (Bayerische Ostmark, the second word being a German translation of marcha orientalis, though no example of this usage in relation to Austria is known before the 19th century). The Bavarian designation is used in historiography in order to differentiate it from the Saxon Eastern March Sächsische Ostmark in the northeast. During the [[Anschluss]] period of 1938-45 the Nazi

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