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4 days ago · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern 's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg . Born during the reign of his granduncle ...
1 day ago · Appointed by King Sigismund in 1415 and enfeoffed in 1417. 1417–1426: Margraviate of Brandenburg: In spite of being granted with the Electorate in 1415, the Margraviate was only given to him in 1417, which he abdicated to his son in 1426. In 1420 joined all his ancestors' Nurembergian lands with Brandenburg. John the Alchemist: 1406 1426–1440
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The German Union ("Deutscher Bund") was restored and included Austria. All monarchs whom Prussia had dethroned in 1866 were restored, although not necessarily within the esaxt same borders. The Slesvig-Holstein Question was "solved" by giving them back to French allied Denmark under personal unions but within the German Union.
5 days ago · Germanic peoples began entering the Roman Empire in large numbers at the same time that Christianity was spreading there, and this connection was a major factor encouraging conversion. The East Germanic peoples, the Langobards, and the Suevi in Spain converted to Arian Christianity , [286] a form of Christianity that believed that God the ...
16 hours ago · Frederick is an Old German name meaning ‘peaceful ruler.’ It is a name borne by the last Hohenzollern monarch or King of Prussia, Frederick II. 104. Gary. Gary comes from an English surname derived from a Norman given name. The name first came into use as a shortened form of Germanic names that begin with the element ‘ger.’
2 days ago · The Empire became parliamentary and French policy abroad angered Italy and Prussia when danger approached as Bismarck stooped to discredit France in Europe. A Hohenzollern ruled on the vacant Spanish throne threatening France with encirclement. Bismarck used the hostility caused by French renewed demands to complete Germany’s unification.
4 days ago · Old Fritz transformed Potsdam into a royal seat. With twelve palaces and numerous gardens, Potsdam's cultural landscape is the largest German Unesco World Heritage Site
