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Bavarians (Bavarian: Boarn Standard German: Baiern) are people who are native to or can trace their ancestry to Bavaria now a state of Germany.As an ethnic German group the Bavarians more specifically are the speakers of the Bavarian language native to Altbayern (Old Bavaria) roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century.Like the neighboring Swabians and Austrians Bavarians are traditionally Catholic.