About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory: the Lower German Limes, which stretched across the Rhine River in present-day Germany and ...

First off, Konta makes the rather flimsy excuse that the treaty the North German Confederation signed (including Prussia, the core state of the Confederation), which guaranteed Belgian neutrality in ...

1521-56: Charles V of Hapsburg’s efforts to restore European unity are thwarted by France, the Protestant German princes, and the Turks. c.1535-1675: Burgher class emerges during German Renaissance.

GERMANY'S north and south have always been different. One half was mostly outside the Roman Empire, the other mostly inside it. The characteristic divide in dialects of German is the “Uerdingen ...