Eastern March
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For the history of the German term for the eastern marches, see Ostmark.
The term Eastern March or march(i)a Orientalis refers to any of two marches (frontier counties) created on the eastern frontier of the East Francia (later the Kingdom of Germany). One march was created in the Duchy of Saxony and another in the Duchy of Bavaria.
- The Saxon Eastern March lay between the rivers Saale and Oder. It was created in the mid-10th century and disbanded over the next century and a half in the marches of Meissen, Lusatia, and Landsberg.
- The Bavarian Eastern March was created in 976 from the territories that had once been part of the March of Pannonia. It eventually came to be known as Austria and was elevated into a duchy, then an archduchy, and finally an empire.
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