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    elsewhere, e.g. in names for Russia. Each of the names for Germany has been adapted into other languages all over the world. After an overview of variants this...
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    About 13% of the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as...
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  • Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (Vorname, plural Vornamen) and a surname (Nachname, Familienname). The...
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    The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states...
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    Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps...
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  • reign of King Louis XIV of France in 1681 and again from 1870 to 1918 and from 1940 to 1945, when Alsace was re-annexed to Germany. Alsatian names used...
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  • The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon...
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    only the cities' and towns' names are given. For more restricted lists with more details, see: List of cities in Germany by population (only Großstädte...
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    demography of Germany is monitored by the Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office of Germany). According to the most recent data, Germany's population...
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  • Geographical Names (German: Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN)) is an independent scientific organization on the standardization of geographical...
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    Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and...
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    chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal government of Germany, The chancellor...
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  • by the German presence in the area dating back to Ostsiedlung, while some others were simply German transliterations of local names or names invented...
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  • Look up Germany in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Germany (officially the Federal Republic of Germany) is a country in Central Europe. Germany may also...
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    Government (German: Bundesregierung (BReg) pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁeˌɡiːʁʊŋ] ) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany and exercises...
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    the Revolutions of 1989. This paved the way for East Germany's reunification with West Germany. Unlike the government of West Germany, the SED did not...
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    Adolf Hitler. Most of the names affected were of Old Prussian, Lithuanian and Polish origin; they were either eliminated, Germanized, or simplified. Similar...
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  • German (Russian: Герман) is a given name, often the Slavic form of Herman. For the Spanish given name pronounced with stress in the second syllable see...
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    rank by population as of 31 December 2021, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany The city name The name of the state in which the...
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    flag of Germany (German: Flagge Deutschlands) is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black...
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    West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany from its formation on 23 May 1949 until its reunification with East Germany on...
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    The economy of Germany is a highly developed social market economy. It has the largest national economy in Europe, the third-largest by nominal GDP in...
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    administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial...
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    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...
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    There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word god (and its equivalent in other languages)...
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    Germany Fauna of Germany Fish of Germany Birds of Germany Mammals of Germany Zoos in Germany Glaciers of Germany Islands of Germany Lakes of Germany Mountains...
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    German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November...
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  • subpages listing German language names of towns and villages in different regions of Poland. Due to the country's history, many of those names have been in...
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    Democratic Union of Germany (German: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands [ˈkʁɪstlɪç demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʔuˈni̯oːn ˈdɔʏtʃlants], CDU, German pronunciation:...
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    language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. It is also an official language of Luxembourg...
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