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* see [[German Empire]]

* see [[German Empire]]

With the fall of French Emperor [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] in 1814 the [[German Confederation]], a loosely-organized league of 39 states, began to lay the ground for nationhood. Numerous conflicts between these states marked the first half of the nineteenth century, and it was not until [[Otto von Bismarck]]'s ascension as chancellor (prime minister) of [[Prussia]] that most of the German states were united under Prussian rule as the modern Germany. After the French defeat in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] in 1871, the German Empire was formally proclaimed, under Kaiser [[Wilhelm I]], with its capital in [[Berlin]]. Bismark was the dominant figure untile 1890.

With the fall of French Emperor [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] in 1814 the [[German Confederation]], a loosely-organized league of 39 states, began to lay the ground for nationhood. Numerous conflicts between these states marked the first half of the nineteenth century, and it was not until [[Otto von Bismarck]]'s ascension as chancellor (prime minister) of [[Prussia]] that most of the German states were united under Prussian rule as the modern Germany. After the French defeat in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] in 1871, the German Empire was formally proclaimed, under Kaiser [[Wilhelm I]], with its capital in [[Berlin]]. Austria remained independent.

==Imperial Germany==

==Imperial Germany==