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Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
As a whole, Austrasia comprised parts of present-day France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Unlike the Alamanni to their south in Swabia , they absorbed large swaths of former Roman territory as they spread west into Gaul , beginning in 250.
Some German states are subdivided into administrative regions, called Regierungsbezirke. Germany as a whole is further composed of approx. 400 districts, separated into: "Rural" districts (Landkreise or Kreise) and "Urban" districts (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise) Cities of Germany; Municipalities of Germany
Germany covers a total of 357,600 km 2 (138,100 sq mi), of which 5,157 km 2 (1,991 sq mi) is irrigated land and 8,350 km 2 (3,220 sq mi) is covered by water, the largest lakes being Lake Constance (total area of 536 km 2 (207 sq mi), with 62% of the shore being German; international borders are not defined on the lake itself), Müritz (117 km 2 ...
The 1949 Basic Law was explicitly irredentist, maintaining that there remained separated parts of 'Germany as a whole' in the form of German peoples living outside the territory under the control of the Federal Republic of 1949, with whom the Federal Republic was constitutionally bound to pursue reunification, and in respect of whom mechanisms ...
Germany as a whole was called Deutschland als Ganzes or Gesamtdeutschland, referring to Germany in the international borders of 1937 (before Hitler started to annex other countries). This resulted in all German (or pan germanique—a chauvinist concept) aspirations. In 1969 the Federal Ministry for All German Affairs was renamed the Federal ...
The remaining German territory was divided into four occupational zones, which along with the joint occupational zone of the capital Berlin would together constitute post-war 'Germany as a whole', and were subject to the administration of an Allied Command (Alliierte Kommandantur ), which in turn was subordinate to the Allied Control Council ...
Lothair I claimed the whole inheritance of his territories as Holy Roman Emperor. 841: 25 June: Battle of Fontenoy: The forces of Charles the Bald and Louis the German dealt a decisive defeat to Lothair I and Pepin the Younger at Fontenoy. An uprising began among Saxon peasants who called themselves the Stellinga. 842: 12 February