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 | | While the German language and the feeling of "Germanhood" go back more than athousand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in 1871, when the German Empire, dominated by the Kingdom of Prussia, was forged. |
 | | The harsh peaceterms codified in the Treaty of Versailles causedresentment in the German population unprepared for the negative outcome. |
 | | The German language was once the lingua franca of central, eastern and northern Europe, and remains one of the most popular foreignlanguages taught worldwide, in Europe it is the second most popular language after English. |
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