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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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In 1949, Bavaria became part of the Federal Republic of Germany, despite the Bavarian Parliament voting against adopting the Basic Law of Germany, mainly because it was seen as not granting sufficient powers to the individual states (Länder), but at the same time declared that it would accept it if two-thirds of the other Länder ratified it.
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History of Bavaria. 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.
c.500. The Germanic tribe of the Rugians seem to be the same people as the Rugii of the first century who had settled on the southern shore of the Baltic. They had later migrated into Austria where they founded a kingdom which was soon subjugated by the Huns.
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as ...
Bavaria is the largest state in the Federal Republic of Germany by area. It can look back on a history of more than 1,500 years with one of the oldest parliaments in Europe. Its coat of arms with the white and blue lozenges is well known all over the world.
Lifestyle. Bavaria (Bayern) The landlocked free state of Bavaria is the largest German federal state, covering approximately one-fifth of the country’s entire land area. As well as sharing a border with Austria and Switzerland, it neighbours the states of Thuringia, Saxony, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse.
Under the Basic Law (constitution) of West Germany of 1948, Bavaria became a state of the Federal Republic. It has long been Germany’s most Roman Catholic area. Its largest cities are Munich (its capital), Nürnberg , and Augsburg .
