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The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion in the Holy Roman Empire to its status as an independent kingdom and finally as a large Bundesland (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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6 days ago · Geographical and historical treatment of the German state of Bavaria, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Raetia and Noricum.
6 days ago · Under the Basic Law (constitution) of West Germany of 1948, Bavaria became a state of the Federal Republic. The postwar era saw Bavaria dramatically transformed from a largely agricultural society to an urban industrial one, as Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder (“economic miracle”) took hold.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Initially a powerful duchy in the Holy Roman empire, Bavaria became a moderately powerful kingdom under the reforms of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, and played its part in Central European politics until the conclusion of the First World War saw the kingdom abolished and a federal Germany formed, of which it was a constituent part.
The Kingdom of Bavaria (German: Königreich Bayern; Bavarian: Kinereich Bayern; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918.
Bavaria, German Bayern, State (pop., 2006 est.: 12,492,658), southeastern Germany. Conquered by the Romans about the beginning of the Common Era (see Noricum; Raetia), the area was taken by Charlemagne and incorporated into his empire in 788.
