A detailed and accurate note on unification of germanyDetailed note on unification of Germany
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When people think of Germany, people often think of the same things: beer, sausage, lederhosen, perhaps even soccer. In other words, they tend to think of Germany as one, homogenous country. This, however, couldn't be further from the truth. Indeed, as few as 150 years ago, modern Germany did not exist at all, and it took the advent of German nationalism and Germany's first great statesman to make it happen.
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The common criticism of the precursor to modern Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, was that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Indeed, though Germany as we know it today was nominally united under an imperial crown for almost a millennium, in reality, the German lands were composed of approximately 300 individual principalities and city-states that largely operated in independence of one another.
Though certain powers dominated different parts of the German lands throughout the Holy Roman Empire's history, it was not until the 17th century that early modern Germany's two greatest powers, Prussia and Austria, began to expand and incorporate more and more German territory under their respective flags. In the early 19th century, Napoleon's conquest of the German lands ended the Holy Roman Empire. After Napoleon's defeat, the German states created the loosely-associated German Confederation in 1815, containing all territories of the former Empire with majority German speakers. Power within the Confederation was dominated by Prussia and Austria.
Background
The common criticism of the precursor to modern Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, was that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Indeed, though Germany as we know it today was nominally united under an imperial crown for almost a millennium, in reality, the German lands were composed of approximately 300 individual principalities and city-states that largely operated in independence of one another.
Though certain powers dominated different parts of the German lands throughout the Holy Roman Empire's history, it was not until the 17th century that early modern Germany's two greatest powers, Prussia and Austria, began to expand and incorporate more and more German territory under their respective flags. In the early 19th century, Napoleon's conquest of the German lands ended the Holy Roman Empire. After Napoleon's defeat, the German states created the loosely-associated German Confederation in 1815, containing all territories of the former Empire with majority German speakers. Power within the Confederation was dominated by Prussia and Austria.
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