History of Germany

Part of a series on the History of Germany Topics Chronology Historiography Military Economy LGBT Judaism Women Territorial evolution Historic states (Holy Roman Empire) Monarchs (Queens, Empresses, 1918, Family tree, Austria, Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, Württemberg, Mediatised) Early history Linear Pottery culture Únětice culture Urnfield culture Germanic peoples Migration Period Barbarian kingdoms Frankish Empire Middle Ages East Francia Kingdom of Germany Holy Roman Empire Eastward settlement Early Modern period Sectionalism 18th century Kingdom of Prussia Unification Mediatisation Confederation of the Rhine German Confederation Vormärz Zollverein Revolutions of 1848 North German Confederation German ReichGerman Empire1871–1918World War I1914–1918Weimar Republic1918–1933Nazi Germany1933–1945World War II1939–1945 Contemporary GermanyOccupationOstgebiete1945–1949/1952Expulsion of Germans1944–1950West–East division1949–1990ReunificationNew states1990Modern historysince 1990 Germany portal History portalvte The concept of Germany as a distinct region can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the area east of the Rhine as Germania, meaning the land where the