Germanies
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Germanies may refer to:
  • Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     while it was divided into multiple states; notable possibilities include:
    • West Germany
      West Germany
      West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

       (FRG) and East Germany (GDR), the division of Germany from 1949–1990.
    • Allied Occupation Zones in Germany
      Allied Occupation Zones in Germany
      The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during 1945–49. In the closing weeks of fighting in Europe, US forces had pushed beyond the previously agreed boundaries for the...

      , the division of Germany after World War II from 1945–1949.
    • Kleindeutschland and Großdeutschland ("Little Germany" and "Big Germany"), two competing ideas for unifying German-speaking lands in the 19th century.
    • German Confederation
      German Confederation
      The German Confederation was the loose association of Central European states created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries. It acted as a buffer between the powerful states of Austria and Prussia...

      , the loose organization of independent German-speaking states after the Napoleonic wars from 1815–1866.
    • List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, the many Germanic states of the Holy Roman Empire from 1200–1800.
  • Germania (guild)
    Germania (guild)
    were guilds of artisans in the Kingdom of Valencia in Spain. Each germania represented a single trade. The germanies are similar to the of Castile, which were paramilitary law-enforcement militias...

     (plural: Germanies, "Brotherhoods"), artisan guilds in the Kingdom of Valencia.
    • Revolt of the Brotherhoods , a revolt in Valencia from 1519–1523.
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