Germany
A country in Western and Central Europe, the most populous member state of the European Union.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Western and Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north with the Alps to the south. Its 16 constituent states have a total population of over 83 million, making it the most populous member state of the European Union (EU). Germany borders Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
- type
- Formable nation
- culture_group
- Germanic
- region
- Central Europe
- first_appears
- Europa Universalis III
- required_nations
- Prussia, Brandenburg, or other German states
- status
- Formable via decision
Lore & Background
Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts, and Germanic tribes inhabiting the north. Romans named the area Germania. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. Following the Napoleonic Wars and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the German Confederation was formed in 1815. Unification of Germany into the modern nation-state, led by Prussia, established the German Empire in 1871. After World War I and a revolution, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic. The Nazi rise to power in 1933 led to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship, World War II, and the Holocaust. In 1949, after the war and Allied occupation, Germany was organised into two separate polities with limited sovereignty: the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Germany, and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany. The FRG was a founding member of the European Economic Community, while the GDR was a communist Eastern Bloc state and a founding member of the Warsaw Pact. After the fall of the communist-led government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the FRG on 3 October 1990.
In Their Own Story
The Holy Roman Empire has long since fractured, but from its ashes, a single voice rises. The Elector of Brandenburg, having crushed the armies of Austria and Saxony, declares the unification of all German lands. In the halls of Berlin, the new German eagle is raised, and the map of Europe trembles. The great powers of France and Russia watch warily as the German nation takes its first breath.
Reader's Guide
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Did You Know?
- Germany has the third-highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 55, of which 52 are cultural.
- 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 first non-modern human fossil (the Neanderthal) was discovered in the Neander Valley in Germany.
- Johannes Gutenberg introduced moveable-type printing to Europe in Germany.
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