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2 days ago · The House of Habsburg-Lorraine retained Austria and attached possessions after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire; see below. A son of Leopold II was Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria whose wife was from the House of Savoy; a daughter Adelaide, Queen of Sardinia was the wife of King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia and King of Italy.
- 11th century
3 days ago · v. t. e. An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". [1] The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. [2]
3 days ago · Greece, the southernmost of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. It lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa and is heir to the heritages of Classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule. One-fifth of Greece’s area is made up of the Greek islands.
Well you see the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, nor Roman, or even an empire. It was a loose coalition of Germanic city states. Edit: it was only united when Prussia one of the city states unified the majority of them into one nation. Which you can argue is the birth of what we know as modern day Germany.
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8 hours ago · In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. Following the Napoleonic Wars and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the German Confederation was formed in 1815.
3 days ago · Lithuania was the last pagan country in Europe, accepting Roman Catholicism in the late 14th century. About four-fifths of the population is Roman Catholic; there are smaller groups of Evangelical Lutherans and other Protestants, as well as people of other faiths. Elements of the pagan religion have survived in the countryside.
4 days ago · Price: £19.99. Peter Wilson’s monumental history of the Thirty Years War is a work which impresses the reader both by the author’s unrivalled command of detail and by the balanced account he gives of the main events and episodes of the war. Not perhaps since the days of Moriz Ritter’s German History in the Age of the Counter Reformation ...
