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The German Empire consisted of 25 states, each with its own nobility, four constituent kingdoms, six grand duchies, five duchies (six before 1876), seven principalities, three free Hanseatic cities, and one imperial territory.
9 paź 2023 · From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Use the appropriate category for maps showing all or a large part of Germany. See subcategories for smaller areas: See also categories: Maps of the history of Germany by historic territory and Old maps of Germany by historic territory. Subcategories.
10 kwi 2011 · The Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1893 consists of 674 sheets at a scale of 1:100,000. All sheets join together to make a huge, highly detailed and historically significant map of about 1,155 cm x 980 cm (38 ft x 32 ft), covering all of present day Germany and much of present day Poland.
German Empire, historical empire founded on January 18, 1871, in the wake of three short, successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year span, Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France had been vanquished.
An online, searchable version of the Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire with integrated historical maps. The full title of the Gazetteer is Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs
The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia. These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten , i.e. federal states , a name derived from the previous North German Confederation ; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic ) each had votes in the Bundesrat , which gave ...
After the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 it was possible to map the entire national territory according to standard cartographic features. In 1878, the four German kingdoms of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg decided to compile this map series at a scale of 1:100,000.
