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and Northernmost Germany showing Schleswig and Holstein in today's German
Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein.]]|thumb]]Holstein () (Low German:
Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the
region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is part of Schleswig-Holstein,
the northernmost state of Germany.
Holstein once existed as the County of Holstein (), the later Duchy of
Holstein (), and was the northernmost territory of the Holy Roman Empire.
The history of Holstein is closely intertwined with the history of the
Danish Duchy of Schleswig. The capital of Holstein is Kiel.
Holstein's name comes from the Holcetae, a Saxon tribe mentioned by Adam
of Bremen as living on the north bank of the Elbe, to the west of Hamburg.
The name means "dwellers in the wood".
History Holstein, essentially the part of Old Saxony that was situ
