Standing Early History of Germany

Standing Early History of Germany

Country Germany is a country located in Central Europe. Countries with a long history of this, on the west border with the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. In the south by Switzerland and Austria. On the east by Czech and Polish. In the northern border with Denmark.

German territory 357,021 square kilometers and is influenced by a winter climate. With 82 million inhabitants, Germany merupakannegara diantaranegara most populous member states of the European Union and the third largest number of adalahtempat migraninternasional in the world.

Early History of the German Standing

Germany has a long history and unique state. Initially, the German form of German Unity. In 1871, Germany stands, the form of the German Empire.

After World War II, the German Empire was divided into two countries, West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) and East Germany (German Democratic Republic). Both countries have different ideologies.

Since unification (unification) of West Germany and East Germany in 1990, Germany had its name officially known as the Federal Republic of Germany. At present, Germany consists of 39 sovereign federation. Berlin is the capital of the country.

Germany is considered as prehistoric period before the arrival of the Romans who then wrote the notes on the region.

The historical record of the area now called Germany started since the reports about the Roman and Greek barbarians ("Berbers"), which inhabits the northern Alps. This period can be termed as the era protosejarah.

The era of history began in the 5th century, commonly called the Middle Ages by European historians. At this time, the stage of history dominated by a feudal federasilonggar variety known as the Holy Roman Empire, which stretched for nearly 10 centuries, from the 9th century until the year 1806. In its heyday, the empire's territory covers the territory of modern Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Czech, Polish western, eastern France, Switzerland, and the modern Italiautara. After the mid-16th century, when the nation lost a lot of non-German territories, the empire is referred to as the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation".

Napoleonic Wars changed the course of history, from the orientation of feudalism into a militaristic state, with the formation of the German Confederation in 1815-1866, in 1871-1918 the German Empire and the Weimar Republic in 1919-1933. After the reign of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in 1933-1945 that brought the destruction of this nation in World War II, came the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) as a symbol of the Cold War, until German reunification in 1990.