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| | Holy Roman Empire - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | For the first time, the assembly of the electors and other dukes was now called Reichstag (to be joined by the Imperial Cities later). |
 | | The Empire was formally dissolved on August 6, 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) abdicated, following a military defeat by the French Army under Napoleon (see Treaty of Lunéville). |
 | | After the end of World War I, the creation of the Weimar Republic, and Nazi Germany's rise, the Nazis referred to Germany as the Third Reich, counting the 1871 Empire as the second, to connect itself with an idealized past and present itself as being in continuity with ancient traditions. |
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