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  Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, whose unexpectedly high demands were perceived as humiliating in Germany, as a continuation of the war by other means and a breaking of traditional post-war diplomacy that included negotiations between the victors and vanquished.
Germany is located in Central Europe and shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East.
The territory of Germany stretches from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m / 9,718 ft) in the south to the shores of the North Sea (Nordsee) in the north-west and the Baltic Sea (Ostsee) in the north-east.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Germany
For Germany itself the heroic age of the medieval emperors was a period of progress in learning.
In this the pope agreed that in Germany the election of bishops should take place according to canonical procedure in the presence of the king or his representative, and that the bishop-elect should then be invested by the king with the sceptre as a symbol of the regalia.
The chief opponents of the ecclesiastical principalities in southern Germany were the representatives of the House of Wittelsbach, rulers of the Palatinates and of Bavaria.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06484b.htm   (21868 words)

  
 GERMANY
Germany was defeated in 1945 and was divided into zones that, in 1949, became West Germany and East Germany.
Germany is a federal republic in which the people elect their representatives by secret ballot.
Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men, and the nation was forbidden from having an air force.
www.gauravhira.freehomepage.com /germany.htm   (12123 words)

  
 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela and his father made him duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI) in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V.
Upon the death of his father on June 4, 1039, he became sole ruler of the kingdom and was crowned emperor by Pope Clement II in Rome (1046).
It was after the these events in northern Germany and a brief visit to Augsburg, where he summoned the greatest magnates, clerical and lay, of the realm to meet him and accompany him, that he crossed the Brenner Pass into Italy, one of the most important of his many travels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Henry_III   (4070 words)

  
 A Chronology of World Political History (801 - 1000 C.E.)
Omer ibn Khafsun, a noble of the former Visigothic Kingdom, staged a peasant uprising in the Ronda mountain region in opposition to Cordoba and established the Ronda Rebels' Regime.
On 8.10 the coalition army of Germany and the feudal lords defeated the Magyars in the Battle of Lechfeld, thus preventing the further invasion of the Magyars.
Germany installed Egon von Ehrenfried as the Count Palatine of Lorraine and founded the Count Palatinate of Lorraine (renamed Count Palatinate of Rhine in 1156, commonly called the Palatinate) in the region of Rhine.
www.geocities.com /kfzhouy/Chron/Chron5e.html   (4835 words)

  
 Germany - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Unlike Germany's failure to achieve victory in World War I, which to many Germans of the interwar period appeared to have been caused by the treachery of Socialist politicians rather than by military defeat, Germany's unconditional surrender in 1945 was obviously unavoidable given the military situation at the war's end.
The most serious problem confronting Germany in the long term is one faced by all advanced, high-wage industrial countries--how to meet the challenges posed by an increasingly globalized economy in which highly skilled workers of lesser developed countries are available at one-tenth the wages of wealthy countries.
Germany has not yet successfully integrated the foreigners already on its soil: archaic immigration laws make it difficult to became a German citizen, and xenophobic attitudes of many Germans often make foreign residents, even those born and raised in the country and speaking perfect German, feel unwanted.
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 Germany travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Germany [1] (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central Europe and a founding member of the European Union.
Germany is part of the European Union and the Eurozone; as such it replaced German marks with the euro (symbol: €) in the year 2002.
Germany has a reputation for racism, and there is some truth to it (especially in the East, where an extreme-right party is represented in the Saxony state parliament), but it's not as bad as the country's notorious history would suggest.
wikitravel.org /en/Germany   (12370 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - The History of Germany - German Royalty
Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Abigail Green.
Princes and Territories in Medieval Germany by Benjamin Arnold.
Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, C. by John W. Bernhardt examines the relationships between monarchs and monasteries.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/Germany.html   (1357 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Germany
Of all the countries in Europe, Germany is one of the richest in Jewish history and tradition.
In Germany, however, the Church's efforts to prejudice the Christian rulers and people against the Jews largely failed in this era – people were too concerned about the political fluctuations, and simply surviving in the harsh frontier conditions, to heed the call to discriminate.
In general, the Jews migrated within Germany in the Middle Ages from the towns on the Rhine in the south to the east and the north.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/germany.html   (3727 words)

  
 RPGnet: Review of Kingdoms
Kingdoms was originally published as Auf Heller und Pfennig in Germany, where it instead featured the theme of peddlers competing for the best stall placement in a bazaar.
Overall Kingdoms is a fun game, with its only mild limitations being the random factor of the secret tile, and its simplicity acting as an ultimate limitor to replays.
Kingdoms is a short tactical tile-laying game that requires real thoughtful play and is very enjoyable at the same time.
www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/9/9518.phtml   (2391 words)

  
 German7
During that time the Frankish Kingdom was expanded, by conquest and acquisition, to include the Kingdom of the Saxons, Bohemia, Bavaria and Carinthia, and the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
In the meantime, in the eastern Germanic kingdoms, the power was claimed by the descendants of the Saxon king, Henry I. Henry united the territories of the Franks, Saxons, Swabians and Bavarians in 919 and gave it the name of Regnum Teutonicorum, or the Kingdom of the Germans.
Otto and his descendants consolidated their power throughout the various kingdoms of Germany in much the same way that Charlemagne had throughout the entire Frankish Kingdom.
www.motherbedford.com /German7.htm   (1157 words)

  
 Kingdoms of Germany - Bavaria
Situated to the south east of modern Germany, the Bavarians were subjugated by the Franks some time after 553.
Bavaria is raised to a kingdom by Napoleon Bonaparte.
The kingdom is made part of the German Empire by Prussia and effectively becomes a sub-kingdom.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GermanyBavarians.htm   (299 words)

  
 Kingdoms of Germany - Saxony
The Saxons were initially subsumed by the Frankish Empire, but emerged as a separate kingdom during the Carolingian fragmentation that followed.
The electorate is elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon Bonaparte on 11th December.
The kingdom annexed as part of the German Empire by Prussia.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GermanySaxons.htm   (515 words)

  
 Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
All these tribes in Germany were eventually subjugated by the Franks, the Alemanni in 496 and 505, the Thuringians in 531, the Bavarians at some point after 553, and then finally the Saxons, in a protracted campaign by Charlemagne himself, by 804.
This small state was far from Germany, a fief of Burgundy, surrounded by the Papal enclave of Avignon, whose Princes recently derived from the Free Counts of Burgundy.
Saxony was reduced to parity with Württemberg as one the smallest of the five Kingdoms of Germany.
www.friesian.com /germany.htm   (10308 words)

  
 3rd Trumpet
Thuringia, which stretched beyond its actual limits as far as the Danube, was in the number of his provinces; he interposed, with the weight of a powerful neighbor, in the domestic affairs of the Franks; and one of his lieutenants chastised, and almost exterminated, the Burgundians of the Rhine.
He subdued the islands of the ocean, the kingdoms of Scandinavia, encompassed and divided by the waters of the Baltic; and the Huns might derive a tribute of furs from that northern region, which has been protected from all other conquerors by the severity of the climate, and the courage of the natives.
The kings and nations of Germany and Scythia, from the Volga perhaps to the Danube, obeyed the warlike summons of Attila.
www.lightministries.com /SDA/id223.htm   (5746 words)

  
 Kingdoms of Germany - Hesse
Hessen-Kassel is combined with Hessen-Homburg and renamed Hessen-Nassau and remains part of Prussia until the latter is unified within modern Germany at the close of World War II.
Following the death of Prince Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt, Philipp becomes the new head of the House of Hesse (family pact signed in 1902).
Julia was not considered worthy of the lineage of Hesse so this special title was created for her and her descendants.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GermanyHesse.htm   (2961 words)

  
 History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294. (ii.iv.viii)
The result of Canossa was civil war in Germany and Italy king against king, pope against pope, nobles against nobles, bishops against bishops, father against son, and son against father.
The friends and supporters of Henry in Lombardy and Germany were dissatisfied, and regarded his humiliation as an act of cowardice, and the pope’s conduct as an insult to the German nation and the royal crown.
Gregory counted on the Saxons in Germany, Countess Matilda in Northern Italy, and the Normans in Southern Italy.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.iv.viii.html   (1399 words)

  
 RULERS OF GERMANY (DEUTSCHLAND)
  The kingdoms of Germany and Italy were united by a personal union within an Empire that was eventually described as a Holy Roman Empire (Heiliges Römisches Reich).
Son of Liudolf of Swabia son of Otto I of Germany brother of Heinrich I
Son of Benno of Northeim; married Richza, daughter of Otto II of Swabia, son of Ezzo of Lothringen by Mathilde, daughter of Otto II of Germany; deposed, died 1083
www-personal.umich.edu /~imladjov/GermanRulers.htm   (2547 words)

  
 Herwig Wolfram: Conrad II, 990 - 1039
In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990–1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium.
He was also the first emperor of the High Middle Ages to rule the three kingdoms of Germany, Italy, and Burgundy.
Conrad’s reign marked the triumph of the concept of “kingdom” and the zenith of what has been termed “imperial grandeur.” He broadened the internal bases of imperial power and brought the full weight of his office to bear upon popes, clerics, and abbots in the pursuit of his ecclesiastical policies.
www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02738-X.html   (410 words)

  
 GERMANY. GERMANY 'S YELLOW-NET ! GERMANY, INFORMATION ABOUT GERMANY, BUSINESS IN GERMANY, PEOPLE IN GERMANY, LIFE IN ...
Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations.
However, with the exception of those established by the Franks and the AngloSaxons, the Germanic kingdoms founded during these centuries of migration were of relatively short duration because of their assimilation by the native Roman populations.
The final conquest of Roman Gaul by the Frankish tribes in the sixth century became a milestone of European history; it was the Franks who were to become the founders of a civilized German state.
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 Hofämterspiel, c.1460
The suit signs are the coats of arms of four kingdoms: France, Germany, Bohemia and Hungary.
The single-headed eagle represents the 'regnum teutonicum', the kingdom of Germany (as opposed to a double-headed eagle representing the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation).
Each suit in turn shows members of the royal household - from the court jester up to the king's steward, including servants and court officials.
www.wopc.co.uk /austria/hofamterspiel.html   (209 words)

  
 CRUSADES :: Forums :: The Infidel Guy Show :: Taking a Critical Look At What We Believe - Audio, Video, Radio, Mp3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Third Crusade was the most ambitious of all, uniting three kingdoms: France, Germany and England.The journeys were slow and cumbersome, the regions through which they passed still bear the scars, and eventually Richard the Lionheart and Saladin were looking for any honourable means possible of ending an impossible war.
At its peak in the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire encompassed all of North Africa, the Near East, Arabia, and Asia Minor and had plunged deep into Europe, claiming Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Croatia, and Serbia.
Under Suleiman the Magnificent the Turks came within a hair's breadth of capturing Vienna, which would have left all of Germany at their mercy.
www.infidelguy.com /ftopic-11829-0.html   (3817 words)

  
 Henry IV of Germany 1056—1106 - Cambridge University Press
Henry IV of Germany 1056—1106 - Cambridge University Press
This is the first book in English devoted to the German king and emperor Henry IV (1056-1106), whose reign was one of the most momentous in German history and a turning-point in the history of the medieval empire (the kingdoms of Germany, Italy and Burgundy).
The reign was marked by continuous rebellions and fluctuating fortune.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521651131&print=y   (265 words)

  
 Pre20thPT2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
An abstracted wargame of medieval Europe, situated in Germany.
Economics, diplomacy and military forces all coalesced into a challenging game; however, the kingdoms of Germany did not conform to the historical milieu and the overall nature of this product was almost completely game-oriented as opposed to teaching any historical lessons.
Think of it as a cross between KINGDOMS OF GERMANY and CASTLES II, but with more depth.
home.comcast.net /~evanbrooks/pre20pt2.htm   (3875 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00700442
Publisher description for Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106 / I.S. Robinson.
He meanwhile, by turns opportunist and compromiser, dedicated himself at all times to preserving the traditional rights of the monarchy.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1050-1106, Germany Kings and rulers Biography, Holy Roman Empire Kings and rulers Biography, Holy Roman Empire History Henry IV, 1056-1106, Constitutional history Holy Roman Empire
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam021/00700442.html   (230 words)

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