There was no single state in Germany before 1871, how many states were there and what had been before
There were over 300 German states that loosely resembled the ‘Holy Roman Empire’, this was crushed by the French Emporer Napoleon in 1806
Following Napoleon’s defeat, what became of the Holy Roman Empire
After Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat in 1815, 39 new states had been formed in the Congress of Vienna, an attempt to fix stability in the area
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