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The German Confederation and its constituent members did not, as is well known, have colonies or overseas empires as did the British, the French, and even the Danes and the Dutch. Germans, however, still found many ways to establish connections around Europe and the world in the first seven decades of the nineteenth century.
The national flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold ( German: Schwarz-Rot-Gold ). [1] The flag was first sighted in 1848 in the German Confederation. The flag was also used by the German Empire from 1848 to 1849.
The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about 1/4 of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.
The German Confederation survived the Revolution of 1848–49 and was formally restored in 1850. A few years later, it fell apart due to the increasingly stark contrast between Prussia and Austria. The Confederation was dissolved after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. The war was an important step on the path to a “small German” solution of ...
German Confederation, 1815–66, union of German states provided for at the Congress of Vienna to replace the old Holy Roman Empire, which had been destroyed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It comprised 39 states in all, 35 monarchies and 4 free cities. Source for information on German Confederation: The Columbia ...
Germany - Metternich, Unification, 1815-71: In place of the Holy Roman Empire the peacemakers of the Congress of Vienna had established a new organization of German states, the German Confederation. This was a loose political association in which most of the rights of sovereignty remained in the hands of the member governments. There was no central executive or judiciary, only a federal Diet ...
The Constitution of the German Confederation or German Federal Act ( German: Deutsche Bundesakte) was the constitution enacted the day before the Congress of Vienna 's Final Act, which established the German Confederation of 39 states, created from the previous 360 states of the Holy Roman Empire, under the presidency of the Emperor of Austria.
