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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...
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  • the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire after the signing of the ... world his intentions to create a global German empire and to develop a strong ...
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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...
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  • Brandenburg within the Holy Roman Empire and Ducal Prussia outside ... had never belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and therefore there was no ...
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  • |combatant2=German Empire German Empire |commander1=France Joseph JoffreUK ... |commander2=German Empire Helmuth von MoltkeGerman Empire Karl von ...
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  • statesman within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Taaffe was an excellent ... and unrest within the multi-cultural empire, with its several languages ...
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  • German New Guinea (Ger. Deutsch-Neuguinea) was a former German protectorate from 1884 to 1914 within the German colonial empire, consisting of ...
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  • June 9, 1775 – December 15, 1853), was a German teacher, archaeologist, and ... of a society for investigating the German language in 1817. In 1821 ...
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  • Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, the other German princes, Spain, France, Sweden ... the internal affairs of the Holy Roman Empire.Andreas Osiander, “Sovereignty ...
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  • The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of The Great War ...
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  • |deathplace = Charlottenburg, German Empire |residence = ... Disappointed with the politics of the German Empire, regarding whose future ...
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  • parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty ... support. From 1881, the finances of the Empire were supervised by the Ottoman ...
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  • The Italian colonial empire was created after Italy joined other European ... wrested control of portions of the Ottoman Empire, including Libya, though ...
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  • |combatant2=German Empire |commander1=Philippe PétainRobert Nivelle ... I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from February ...
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  • 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor William II and the ... rest of his life as a private citizen. His German name was Friedrich Karl Ludwig ...
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  • Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German ... Carpathians, where he saw villages with German people living in a foreign ...
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  • as the "Imperial Cathedral" (in German: Kaiserdom) is a Roman Catholic ... chapel was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens. The ...
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  • a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the ... * Eyck, Erich. 1964. Bismarck and the German Empire. New York, NY: ...
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  • in the face of territorial demands made by German dictator Adolf Hitler. The ... Germans had attempted to prevent the German-language border areas that ...
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  • Grimm collected orally transmitted German tales and published the first ... spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there ...
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  • century. Kjellén was inspired by the German geographer and ethnographer ... The Heartland theory hypothesized the possibility for a huge empire ...
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  • Europe which had already had cost the Empire most of its Balkan provinces ... it wanted to preserve what was left of the empire. The promised decentralization ...
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  • the Allied and Associated Powers and the German Empire. After six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), ...
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  • lands with his in a near revival of the empire of Charlemagne, if he would ... Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses. ...
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  • Nemanjići; Anglicized: Nemanyid; German: Nemanjiden) was a medieval ... The Serbian Empire did not survive its founder for very long. After ...
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  • over 20,000 inhabitants in the Holy Roman Empire. [[Image:Magdeburger ... against the troops of the Holy Roman Empire. The Empire's forces ...
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  • was at that time part of the Holy Roman Empire, which was largely populated ... he was forced into an alliance with the Empire, England, and Venice against ...
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  • of Germany and the creation of the German Empire in 1871. ... Prussia was a constituting member of the German Empire. ...
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  • Reformation. It was written in both German and Latin, and was presented ... issued letters from Bologna, inviting the German diet to meet in Augsburg ...
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  • C.E. they invaded what was then the Roman Empire province of Dacia, together ... between rival powers, such as the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian ...
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  • became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated ... :XII. Ottoman Empire :Sovereignty for the Turkish portion of the Ottoman ...
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  • ruling House of Austria (and the Austrian Empire) for over six centuries. ... of 1866 resulted in the Austria-Hungarian Empire losing to its rival, Prussia ...
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  • quot; of mankind, and particularly the German people on the eve of First ... the chair of Mechanical Engineering at the German Technical University in Brno ...
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  • Karl Ernst Haushofer (August 27, 1869 – March 13, 1946) was a German ... By 1924, as the leader of the German geopolitik (geopolitics) school ...
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  • The Heartland theory hypothesized the possibility for a huge empire ... The Heartland Theory was enthusiastically taken up by the German school ...
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  • the period of the Cold War. Prior to German reunification, East Germany ... south, the influence of the Ottoman Empire and Islam was strong. The ...
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  • The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... as so indebted to the legacy of the Roman Empire, whose legacy continued to ...
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  • German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October ... of the Soviet Union, urged the East German government to embrace change ...
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  • the Holy See. The throne of the Holy Roman Empire had become vacant by the ... May 1202, Innocent III made clear to the German princes his view of the relationship ...
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  • in English legends, Dietrich von Bern in German legends and as Þjóðrekr ... central Europe, represented by the Roman Empire was ending and the new order ...
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  • official emblem of the Bundeswehr when the German Army was reconstituted. German ... Prussia's pre-eminent place in the German Empire formed in 1881, it tended ...
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  • (1480-1554) was the great advocate of German and Polish Jews during the ... his court, and to live anywhere in the German empire, even in places where ...
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  • poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic. Virgil ... the wonders (and troubles) of the Roman Empire and spends a particularly ...
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  • in April 1940, just a month before the German invasion of France and the ... les Tombeaux Egyptiens de L'ancien Empire. Paris: Strasbourg University. ...
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  • The French Napoleonic Code of 1804, the German civil code (Bürgerliches ... nations were introducing civil law, the German Civil Code became the basis ...
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  • to build what was to become a successful journalism empire. ... the brothers continued to expand their empire, and purchased the Sunday ...
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  • time all of Bohemia was a part of the Holy Roman Empire. ... of the collapsed Austro-Hungarian Empire. In about two decades, the ...
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  • of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan ... as a threat, and now that the Christian Empire in the East had fallen, an ...
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  • quot; and during the Second Bulgarian Empire as "Tsar." ... was proclaimed Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire the Pope broke its political ...
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  • Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... Abdülhamid now viewed the new German Empire as a possible friend ...
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  • under Christian leaders of the Roman Empire. Although Manichaeism is ... (216-276 C.E.), who resided in the Persian Empire. According to biographical ...
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  • location is still debated. The Roman Empire typically crucified criminals ... reports about the location of Calvary] (in German)Retrieved September 29, 2007. ...
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  • The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ... that led to the break-up of the Empire, when Slav nationalism resulted ...
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  • with Prussia forming the core of the German Empire. Creation of the unified ... on to become the dominant state of the German Empire (1871-1918); ...
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  • theater and the planned invasion of the Empire of Japan; Churchill was pressing ... manned by the Soviet-backed Communist East German government. ...
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  • (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms ... his time in Wartburg that Luther began his German translation of the Bible ...
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  • administer territories formerly under German and Ottoman rule, introducing ... * The Ottoman Empire (Treaty of Sèvres, August 10, 1920; subsequently ...
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  • nations oppressed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, inspired by the French Revolution ... which had to do with what area of the Empire they were under, Austrian ...
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  • The Peasants' War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, literally ... only their wealth and position within the empire (through the confiscation ...
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  • |June 7, 1900, German Empire Wegeleben, Germany |- | Death ... Bormann was born in Wegeleben (near Halberstadt) in the German Empire ...
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  • |birth_place=Breslau, German Empire |death_place=Auschwitz concentration ... Edith Stein was born in Breslau, in the German Empire's Prussian ...
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  • a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and contemporary European ... minorities well, and many people in the empire enjoyed peace and security ...
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  • 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between Gottfried ... of 1713 (often referred to as the German Metaphysics), laid out a ...
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  • twentieth centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest behind ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...
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  • due to immigrants from the Holy Roman Empire from the fourteenth century ... province, Silesia became part of the German Empire during the unification ...
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  • known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian ... the play as marking a major change in the German theater, where issues of ...
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  • The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its ... Marienburg Castle as a symbol of the German Empire's policy. ...
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  • witnessed the fall of the western Roman Empire to the barbarians and forged ... During his pontificate, the western Roman Empire came to an end under ...
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  • [[Image:German POWs captured in Flanders by Brits2.jpg|thumb|250 px ... The Ottoman Empire often treated prisoners of war poorly. Some 11 ...
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  • of the Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire. Born into a wealthy patrician ... his greatest triumphs. Under his rule, the Empire reached its greatest territorial ...
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  • (April 20, 1839 - October 10, 1914) German prince, was elected Domnitor ... was to enter the war on the side of the German Empire. An emergency meeting ...
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  • dwarves were assimilated into Dutch and German tradition. What is known ... including those by the Brothers Grimm, the German gnome often resembles a gnarled ...
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  • Wolfgang Köhler (January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967) was a German ... in Reval (now Tallinn) in the Russian Empire (now Estonia). His father ...
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  • having taken part in the 1897 anti-German riots in Prague as a schoolboy ... #039;s method of subverting the Austrian Empire is to carry out his orders ...
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  • 28, 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German and Romanian physicist, whose ... World War I he was drafted in an Imperial German infantry battalion and sent ...
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  • Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... year 1900, when for the first time the German Empire passed a nationwide unique ...
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  • years earlier Georg Friedrich Grotefend, a German epigraphist, had begun to ... in the three official languages of the empire: Old Persian, Babylonian ...
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  • of this name, Danzig, has been used by the German population, as well as in ... from 1815. The city became part of the German Empire in 1871. ...
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  • with life in Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. The Bridge on the Drina ... then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Originally named Ivan, he ...
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  • of the best-preserved city centers in the German-speaking world, and was listed ... After 1816, Salzburg became part of the Habsburg Empire. ...
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  • armies, and during the period of the Roman Empire, the route was known as the ... and 1905, by Gottlieb Schumacher for the German Society for Oriental Research ...
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  • of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred on him by Queen ... He was made a "Knight of the Indian Empire" by Queen Victoria ...
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  • and secular rulers in the Western Roman Empire. The document is now universally ... the churches throughout many parts of the empire. It centered on the question ...
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  • his career as a journalist writing anti-German propaganda during World War ... 0805074611). His article, "Kill the German" published in 1942—when ...
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  • which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father, Bernard Pompeius ... and was influenced by the writings of the German mathematician Abraham Gotthelf ...
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  • of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as an empire. He has a reputation of inveterate ... Gediminas established Lithuania as an empire, controlling trade, military ...
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  • an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after accepting Christianity ... kingdom, then part of the Carolingian empire and later the nucleus of ...
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  • Adolf von Harnack (May 7, 1851 – June 10, 1930), was a German theologian ... . The book built on the work of earlier German biblical scholars such as ...
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  • independence from the declining Ottoman Empire; now the victorious Allies ... and eastern Slovakia) and following German aggression against Yugoslavia ...
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  • city led it to be conquered by the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, the ... its status as a key city in the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire from 1324 ...
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  • II were defeated by forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Suleiman the ... by Louis himself (beside numerous Spanish, German and Czech mercenaries, as ...
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  • Republic of China had been fighting the Empire of Japan since 1937. ... On September 1, 1939, the German invasion of Poland started World ...
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  • it its enormous vogue during the Second Empire and afterwards." ... ;In German [[Image:A Waltz Dream.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gertie Millar ...
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  • and Hedwige of Saxony, daughter of the German king Henry the Fowler, Hugh ... very small part of the former Carolingian Empire. The eastern Frankish lands ...
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  • ) (September 16, 1891 – December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader ... In 1910, Dönitz enlisted in the Imperial German Navy becoming a sea-cadet ...
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  • : German: Genfersee or Genfer See /'gɛnfərˌze:/ ... When Christianity spread through the Roman Empire, Geneva became the seat of ...
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  • the opening address at the Religions of Empire Conference, part of the British ... Younghusband was also created a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire ...
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  • The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled ... 1814. The restored portions of the Dutch empire, notably the Dutch East Indies ...
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  • 19,000 ft. high, on the northern border of German East Africa, 170 m. from ... Wilhelm-Spitze, which was used in the German Empire until its defeat in 1918 ...
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  • 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694), was a German jurist, political philosopher ... liber unus (On the Condition of the German Empire). Published under the ...
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  • Yodeling was carried to the United States mostly by German immigrants ... already there were meeting their new German neighbors, who happened to ...
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