German History: Pre-Unification

Up to 1871

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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