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Germanic peoples. Roman bronze statuette representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot. Dating to the late 1st century – early 2nd century A.D. The Germanic peoples once lived in Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 34 subcategories, out of 34 total. People by organisation in Germany (8 C) German people by ethnic or national origin (15 C) German people by legal status (5 C) German people by location (10 C) German people by occupation (72 C) German people by period (9 C) German people by ...
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. People from the Kingdom of Prussia by province (19 C) Prussian people by century (7 C) People from the Kingdom of Prussia by occupation (18 C) People from the Kingdom of Prussia by war (6 C)
Prussia, in European history, any of three historical areas of eastern and central Europe. It is most often associated with the kingdom ruled by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, which claimed much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871.
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, [b] often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant ...
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 ...
Pages in category "18th-century Prussian people". The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
