The German Empire became Germany ... It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

or other west Germanic languages such as Dutch and German. I suppose this map explains quite nicely why English is such a big ...

Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was a capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxonian-Ottonian ... make Quedlinburg an exceptional example of a medieval European ...