QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

German evolution

Top left: ‘Germania’ and other regions as depicted in this 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius; Bohemia and Austria are the shaded areas lower right, and Poland lies on the right edge. Left: Prussia’s extent in 1806 as it began flexing its muscles; the yellow border is the extent of the Austrian empire and Poland does not exist. Above: The German kingdoms and dukedoms edge coalesced in ‘Bundesgebiet’ during 1815-1866, still maintain their geographic identities (although eastern Prussia remained detached(). Below: The extent of the Deutsches Reich at the end of the 19th century; the extent of the internal territorial rearrangements is as obvious as Prussia’s ascendancy.

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