The term German Pennsylvania (German: Hochdeutsche Pennsylvanien)[1][2] refers to two distinct regions:
- first, to High German Pennsylvania, settled by 1600s Palatines and other Germans, with Germantown as its capital.[3][4] Historically it rivaled New England.[3]
- second, to the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, a Pennsylvania Dutch region which centers around Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[5]
Each term has been in use for many years.
- ^ Kohl (1856). Reisen in Canada und durch die Staaten von New-York und Pennsylvanien. University of Bern. p. 570.
- ^ Julius Friedrich Sachse (1971). The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania: 1742–1800. New York Public Library. p. 528.
- ^ a b Henry Harbaugh (1857). The Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter With a Full Account of His Travels and Labors Among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia; Including His Services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Lindsay and Blakiston. pp. xxii.
- ^ Farley Grubb (2013). German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709–1920. Lindsay and Blakiston. p. 419.
- ^ Earl F. Robacker (1944). Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff A Guide to Country Antiques. University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated. p. 7.
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