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  1. The German Confederation ( German: Deutscher Bund, German pronunciation: [ˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃɐ ˈbʊnt] ⓘ) was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. [a] It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806 in reaction to ...

  2. German Confederation, organization of 39 German states, established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to replace the destroyed Holy Roman Empire. It was a loose political association, formed for mutual defense, with no central executive or judiciary.

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  3. The German Confederation as a whole, rigid and unyielding, remained during these last years of its existence blind to the need for reform that the revolution had made clear. Yet the 1850s, so politically barren, were economically momentous, for it was during this period that the great breakthrough of industrial capitalism occurred in Germany.

  4. The states of the German Confederation were member states of the German Confederation, from 20 June 1815 until 24 August 1866. On the whole, its territory nearly coincided with that remaining in the Holy Roman Empire at the outbreak of the French Revolution, with the notable exception of Belgium. Except for the two rival major powers, Austria ...

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  6. The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved in 1806 in reaction to the Napoleonic Wars.

  7. Learn about the German Confederation, a union of German states created in 1815 to replace the Holy Roman Empire. Find out how it functioned, who were its members, and why it was dissolved in 1866.

  8. German Empire - North German Confederation, Prussia, Unification: With the decisive defeat of Austria, Prussia was now the sole power in Germany. Bismarck was limited only by a promise given to Napoleon III that the states south of the Main should have “an internationally independent existence.” All of Germany north of the Main had been virtually conquered by Prussia, but Bismarck was ...

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