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nation-state formation
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Germany’s Birth: When Did Germany Become a Country?
Yet even that unification was temporary. The Germany that emerged in 1871 under Kaiser Wilhelm I was a military powerhouse, but its borders were contested, its...
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The Real Story: When Did France Become a Country?
The borders we recognize today—hexagonal, unbroken—are a 19th-century illusion. Before that, France was a shifting mosaic of territories stitched together by...