Editing March (territory) (section)

===Germany and Austria===
The Germanic tribes that Romans called [[Marcomanni]], who battled the Romans in the 1st and 2nd centuries, were simply the "men of the borderlands".

[[File:Limes.saxoniae.wmt.png|thumb|The {{lang|la|[[Limes Saxoniae]]}} was an unfortified [[Limes (Roman Empire)|limes]] or border between the [[Saxons]] and the Slavic [[Obotrites]], established about 810]]
'''Marches''' were territorial organisations created as borderlands in the [[Carolingian Empire]] and had a long career as purely conventional designations under the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. In modern German, "Mark" denotes a piece of land that historically was a borderland, as in the following names:

====Later medieval marches====
*[[Northern March|Nordmark]], the "Northern March", the [[Ottonian empire]]'s territorial organisation on the conquered areas of the [[Wends]]. In 1134, in the wake of a German crusade against the Wends, the German magnate [[Albert the Bear]] was granted the [[Northern March]] by the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Lothar II, Holy Roman Emperor|Lothar II]].
* the [[March of the Billungs]] on the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic coast]], stretching approximately from [[Stettin]] (Szczecin) to [[Schleswig]];
* [[Marca Geronis]] (''march of Gero''), a precursor of the [[Saxon Eastern March]], later divided into smaller marches (the [[Northern March]], which later was reestablished as [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]]; the [[Lusatian March]] and the [[Margraviate of Meissen|Meißen March]] in modern [[Saxony|Free state of Saxony]]; the [[March of Zeitz]]; the [[Merseburg March]]; the [[Milceni|Milzener March]] around [[Bautzen]]);
* [[March of Austria]] (''marcha Orientalis'', the "Eastern March" or "Bavarian Eastern March" ({{langx|de|Ostmark}}) in modern lower Austria);
* the [[Hungarian March]]
* the [[Carantania|Carantania march]] or [[March of Styria]] (Steiermark);
* the [[Drau March]] ([[Maribor|Marburg]] and [[Pettau]]);
* the [[Mark an der Sann|Sann March]] ([[Celje|Cilli]]);
* the Krain or [[March of Carniola]], also [[Windic march]] and [[White Carniola]] (''White March''), in modern [[Slovenia]].
* three marches were created in the [[Low Countries]]: [[Margraviate of Antwerp|Antwerp]], [[Valenciennes]], [[Ename]].

====Other====
*The [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]], its ruler designated {{lang|de|Markgraf}} (margrave, literally "march-count"). It was further divided into regions also designated "Mark":
**[[Altmark]] ("Old March"), the western region of the former margraviate, between [[Hamburg]] and [[Magdeburg]].
**[[Mittelmark]] ("Central March"), the area surrounding Berlin. Today, this region makes up for the bulk of the German [[States of Germany|federal state]] of [[Brandenburg]], and thus in modern usage is referred to as Mark Brandenburg.
**[[Neumark (region)|Neumark]] ("New March") since the 1250s was Brandenburg's eastern extremity between [[Pomerania]] and [[Greater Poland]]. Since 1945, the area is a part of Poland.
**[[Uckermark]], the Brandenburg–Pomeranian borderland. The name is still in use for the region as well as for a [[Uckermark (district)|Brandenburgian district]].
*[[Mark (county)|Mark]], a medieval territory that is recalled in the [[Märkischer Kreis]] district (formed in 1975) of today's [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]. The northern portion (north of the [[Lippe River]]) is still called '''Hohe Mark''' ("Higher Mark"). The former "Lower Mark" (between Ruhr and Lippe rivers) is the present [[Ruhr area]] and is no longer called "Mark". The title, in the form "Count of the Mark", survived the territory as a subsidiary title of the Dukes of [[Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
*[[Saxon Eastern March|Ostmark]] ("Eastern March") is a modern rendition of the term ''marchia orientalis'' used in Carolingian documents referring to the area of [[Lower Austria]] that was later a ''markgraftum'' ([[Margrave|margraviate]] or "county of the mark"). ''Ostmark'' has been variously used to denote Austria, the [[Saxon Eastern March]], or, as '' [[Ostmarkenverein]]'', the territories Prussia gained in the [[partitions of Poland]].