Kingdom of Bavaria (Central Victory)

The Kingdom of Bavaria (: Königreich Bayern) was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1990. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of the became the first King of Bavaria in 1806 as Maximilian I Joseph. The monarchy would remain held by the Wittelsbachs until the kingdom's dissolution in 1990. Most of Bavaria's modern-day borders were established after 1814 with the Treaty of Paris, in which Bavaria ceded Tyrol and to the  while receiving  and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt. As a state within the, the kingdom was second in size only to the. Since the in 1871, Bavaria has remained part of Germany.