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Capital (and largest city) |
Berlin | ||||
Language | High German | ||||
Currency | German Mark |
The Kingdom of Germany, also known as East Germany, is a kingdom composed by Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, among other states.
The Kingdom of Germany is one of the three states in which the German Realm was consolidated during the 19th century. The current constitution dates from 1915, after the Great Central European War, when the Kingdom of Prussia lost the dominance role in the Central-Eastern German Empire, and Poland was granted independence.
Geography[]
East Germany is a country in Central Europe
Limits[]
North: West Germany, Baltic Sea, and Lithuania. East: Poland, and Austria. South: Austria, and Switzerland. West: France, and West Germany.
Administrative divisions[]
East Germany is divided in three Kingdoms, four Grand Duchies, and several Duchies, Principalities, and Provinces. Al provinces are subdivisions of Prussia that is some times counted as a separate Kingdom, but its provinces are threated as first level subdivisions of the German Kingdom.
A list of these subdivisions include:
Subdivision | Capital |
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Kingdoms | |
Bavaria | Munich |
Saxony | Dresden |
Württemberg | Stuttgart |
Grand duchies | |
Baden | Karlsruhe |
Hesse | Darmstadt |
Mecklenburg | Schwerin |
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Weimar |
Duchies | |
Anhalt Dessau | |
Brunswick | Braunschweig |
Saxe-Altenburg | Altenburg |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Coburg |
Saxe-Meiningen | Meiningen |
Principalities | |
Reuss | Gera |
Schaumburg | Bückeburg |
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | Rudolstadt |
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | Sondershausen |
Waldeck-Pyrmont | Arolsen |
Provinces | |
Brandemburg | Postdam |
East Prussia | Könisberg |
Pomerania | Stettin |
Prussian Saxony | Magdeburg |
Silesia | Breslau |
West Prussia | Danzig |
Royal Districts | |
Berlin | |
Free Cities | |
Lübeck |