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The appearance of the German language begins in the Early Middle Ages with the High German consonant shift. Old High German, Middle High German, and Early New High German span the duration of the Holy Roman Empire. The 19th and 20th centuries saw the rise of Standard German and a decrease of dialectal variety.
appearance of the German language begins in the Early Middle Ages with the High German consonant shift. Old High German, Middle High German, and Early...
Retrieved 23 March 2019. "A German Voice of Opposition to Germanization (1914)". GermanHistory in Documents and Images. German Historical Institute. Retrieved...
This is a timeline ofGermanhistory, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To...
Trade unions in Germany have a history reaching back to the German revolution in 1848, and still play an important role in the German economy and society...
Germany. During this time, many German states stripped Jews of their civil rights. As a result, many German Jews began to emigrate. From the time of Moses...
Hollywood later. Early German and German-speaking filmmakers and actors heavily contributed to early Hollywood. German movies and German artists earned 230...
The historyofGerman football is one that has seen many changes. Football was a popular game from early on, and the German sports landscape was dotted...
The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich...
the navy of East Germany, 1956–90 German Navy, since 1995 Wehrmacht German Army (German Empire) HistoryofGermany Prussian Army List of wars involving...
German nationalism (German: Deutscher Nationalismus) is an ideological notion that promotes the unity ofGermans and of the Germanosphere into one unified...
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. The 2020 census...
The German Democratic Republic (GDR), German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), often known in English as East Germany, existed from 1949 to 1990...
The historyofGerman women covers gender roles, personalities and movements from medieval times to the present in German-speaking lands. The Ottonian...
France. The German Empire was put together in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck, who dominated German and indeed all of European diplomatic history until he was...
The Course ofGermanHistory is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton...
The historyofGerman journalism dates back to the 16th century. Johannes Gutenberg, a German, invented the printing press, while the world's first newspapers...
The German navy has operated under different names. See Prussian Navy, 1701–1867 Reichsflotte (Fleet of the Realm), 1848–52 North German Federal Navy,...
Germans (German: Deutsche, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə] ) are the natives or inhabitants ofGermany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are ofGerman descent...
German Empire borders. Weimar Republic borders, i.e. German state borders of 31 December 1937. Aggregated data from the Federal Republic ofGermany and...
German New Guinea (German: Deutsch-Neuguinea) consisted of the northeastern part of the island of New Guinea and several nearby island groups and was...
Historyof Eastern Germany may refer to: Historyof the German Democratic Republic Historyof eastern German regions: Prussia East Prussia West Prussia...
German literature (German: Deutschsprachige Literatur) comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written...
November has been the date of a series of events that are considered political turning points in recent Germanhistory, some of which also had international...
The historyof journalism spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information...
The culture ofGermany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. German culture originated with...
German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise...
these towns were increasingly German and German-speaking. At the synod of Łęczyca in 1285, Archbishop Jakub Świnka of Gniezno warned that Poland might...
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