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However, Germany does not keep any statistics regarding ethnicity or race. Hence, the exact number of Germans of African descent is unknown. Germany's biggest East Asian minorities are the Chinese people in Germany , numbering 189,000 [ 63 ] and Vietnamese people in Germany , numbering 188,000, [ 63 ] many of whom living in Berlin and eastern ...
This meant that Austria-Hungary, a multi-ethnic Empire with a considerable German-speaking population, would remain outside of the German nation state. Bismarck's policy was to pursue a solution diplomatically. [citation needed] The effective alliance between Germany and Austria played a major role in Germany's decision to enter World War I in ...
Nuremberg in 1471 [1] held a census, to be prepared in case of a siege. Brandenburg-Prussia in 1683 began to count its rural population. The first systematic population survey on the European continent was taken in 1719 in the Mark Brandenburg of the Kingdom of Prussia, in order to prepare the first general census of 1725.
Prussia (green) within the German Empire 1871–1918. A map of Austria-Hungary, showing areas inhabited by ethnic Germans in red according to the 1910 census. By the 19th century, every city of even modest size as far east as Russia had a German quarter and a Jewish quarter.
Between 1881 and 1893 the Ottoman Empire implemented its first census, which enumerated the people in the empire by ethnicity. [77] [78] Some other censuses and studies were conducted in the Ottoman Empire for enumerating the population by ethnicity after the first Ottoman census. [77] [78]
The history of Germans as an ethnic group began with the separation of a distinct Kingdom of Germany from the eastern part of the Frankish Empire under the Ottonian dynasty in the 10th century, forming the core of the Holy Roman Empire. In subsequent centuries the political power and population of this empire grew considerably.
Map 9: Depiction of Magna Germania in the early 2nd century including the location of many ancient Germanic peoples and tribes (by Alexander George Findlay 1849) Map 10: Early Roman Empire with some ethnic names in and around Germania Map 11: Suebic migrations across Europe Map 12: Lombard migration from Scandinavia Map 13: Old Saxony.
Following the partitions, the Prussian authorities started the policy of settling German speaking ethnic groups in these areas. Frederick the Great, in an effort to populate his sparsely populated kingdom, settled around 300,000 colonists in all provinces of Prussia, most of which were of a German ethnic background, and aimed at a removal of the Polish nobility, which he treated with contempt.