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3 days ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
- Geography of Germany
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- President
The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal...
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
When incoming Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in his...
- Deutschland (Disambiguation)
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- Coat of Arms
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- Demographics of Germany
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- Geography of Germany
1 day 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 ...
5 days ago · Yet, there is perhaps a case for agreeing with David Blackburn's judgment in his recent Fontana history of Germany that Rohl "may be pressing the case a little hard." He might for example have pointed to the remarkable vigour of popular politics in Wilhelmine Germany with turn-outs for Reichstag elections measuring 84% in 1912 and 94.2% in a by ...
5 days ago · Price: £179.00. D. G. Williamson's Germany from Defeat to Partition is one of the latest additions to the Seminar Studies in History series. Since its founding in 1966, the series has brought out an extensive range of short texts on numerous aspects of English, European and world history, and new titles keep appearing at a steady pace.
5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg. The current King of the United Kingdom and King of Norway are agnatic members of this house, meanwhile the King of Spain and King of ...
- Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
- (adoptive:)Bernadotte
- 1101; 922 years ago
- Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg
5 days ago · Here, the activity is inventing a conlang, short for constructed language – artificially invented languages, like Klingon and Dothraki. Sam. Another famous constructed language, Esperanto, was ...
2 days ago · London, Continuum, 2008, ISBN: 9781847252395; 256pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an accessible and engaging book about the ranks, obligations, and image of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, written by one of the leading historians of the period. Ann Williams is the author of The English and the Norman Conquest, Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest ...
