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The GERMAN EMPIRE  
1871-1918

 

 


Germany - 1914
 Four Kingdoms: 
 Prussia
(Preussen), Bavaria (Bayern), Saxony (Sachsen), Wuerttemberg
 Six Grand Duchies: 
 Baden, Hesse
(Hessen), Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Mecklenberg-Strelitz, Oldenburg
 Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
 Five Duchies: 
 Anhalt, Brunswick
(Braunschweig), Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
 Seven Principalities: 
 Lippe, Reuss-Greiz, Reuss-Schleiz, Schaumberg-Lippe, Schaumberg-Rudolstadt,
 Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Waldeck
 Three Independent Cities: 
 Bremen, Hamburg, Luebeck
 One Imperial State:
 Alsace-Lorraine
(Elsass-Lothringen)
 
Thirteen Prussian Provinces:
 Brandenburg, East Prussia
(Ostpreussen), Hanover (Hannover), Hesse-Nassau (Hessen-Nassau), Hohenzollern,
 Pomerania
(Pommern), Posen, Rhineland (Rheinland), Saxony (territory separate from Saxon Kingdom),
 Schleswig-Holstein, Silesia
(Schlesien), West Prussia (Westpreussen), Westphalia (Westfalen)
Four Bavarian Provinces:
 Franconia
(Franken), Palatinate (Pfalz), Swabia (Schwaben), Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz)
 

 

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