Margraviate of the Nordgau
| Margraviate of the Nordgau Marcgraveschaft Nortgou | |||||||||||
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| Gau of the Duchy of Bavaria | |||||||||||
| c. 806–1329 | |||||||||||
Map of the March of the Nordgau within the Duchy of Bavaria c. 1000 CE. Nordgau Other parts of Bavaria Rest of the German Kingdom | |||||||||||
| Capital | Munich (from 1255) | ||||||||||
| • Type | Margraviate | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Medieval Europe | ||||||||||
• Established | c. 806 | ||||||||||
| 4 August 1329 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Czech Republic Germany | ||||||||||
The Margraviate of the Nordgau (Modern German: Markgrafschaft Nordgau, Middle High German: Marcgraveschaft Nortgou) or Bavarian Nordgau (Bayerischer Nordgau) was a medieval administrative unit (Gau) on the frontier of the German Duchy of Bavaria. It comprised the region north of the Danube and Regensburg (Ratisbon), roughly covered by the modern Upper Palatinate stretching up to the river Main and, especially after 1061, into the Egerland on the border with Bohemia.