Germany (German: Deutschland, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃlant] (listen)), officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; covering an area of 357,022 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi), with a population of over 83 million within its 16 constituent states. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and largest city is Berlin, and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. Following the Napoleonic Wars and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the German Confederation was formed in 1815. In 1871, Germany became a nation-state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the semi-presidential Weimar Republic. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to the establishment of a dictatorship, World War II, and the Holocaust. After the end of World War II in Europe and a period of Allied occupation, Germany was divided into the Federal Republic of Germany, generally known as West Germany, and the German Democratic Republic, East Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany was a founding member of the European Economic Community and the European Union, while the German Democratic Republic was a communist Eastern Bloc state and member of the Warsaw Pact. After the fall of communism, German reunification saw the former East German states join the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990—becoming a federal parliamentary republic led by a chancellor.
Germany is a great power with a strong economy; it has the largest economy in Europe, the world's fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP, and the fifth-largest by PPP. As a global leader in several industrial, scientific and technological sectors, it is both the world's third-largest exporter and importer of goods. As a developed country, which ranks very high on the Human Development Index, it offers social security and a universal health care system, environmental protections, and a tuition-free university education. Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G7, the G20, and the OECD. It has the fourth-greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
I am a student doing Bachelors studies in Physics at a reputed university in India. I am presently in 5th semester of my course and I desire to do my masters course in the same subject in Germany. I will be obliged if someone helps me out in this matter by suggesting the names of competent...
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Has it come to this? We now look to our former enemies for solutions to our problems. As I recall, "the wall" stood as a symbol for everything we oppose. It was in part what defined the enemy...
The veteran in the White Housepress corps in the USA, Helen Thomas, makes her own ideas about Jews quite clear in this little gem:
That the majority of the Jews of the Israelis, descend from those who were driven out/fled from Arab lands post-48 (after thousands of years of living there)...
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I would like to pursue Ph.D. in Computer Science in Germany. I have completed my Master of Science in Computing from UK. I am finding it difficult to find the universities or the correct way.
Will you please help me?
Thanks.
Why did Nazism rise to power so quickly before and during World War 2 in Germany? Did Germany as a whole know that Hitler was killing Jews? Do you think something like Nazism will ever be able to thrive in Germany again?
I want to study physics, undergraduate but I don't know if the best universities are in the US, I would like to know if some of you have studied somewere else and if it is also good for my opportunities of becoming a researcher in physics if I study in Germany.
So how is Germany for studying...
Quality of Phd in US or Germany...
Hi folks...
I want to do phd in computer sc. but could not make up my mind to select the destination country whether US or Germany :confused:. In US the phd duration long compared to Germany, in Germany funding is also good but in us the University s' are...
Hello ca some one help me to find datasheets for the following IC's. I have checked in google but i couldn't find anything.
A211D
A281D
A283D
DL000D
DL004D
DL008D
DL193
DL75113
DS140DC
G002556.000 (ITT NIC-DTV2)
G002556.001 (ITT NIC-DTV2)
G002556.003 (ITT NIC-DTV2)
G002556.004 (ITT...
I am considering applying for german grad schools (there is a nice financement agreement between Germany and Mexico, and I like the country). Does anyone know where the good physics departments are (specially in cosmology and high energy physics).
Just south of Cottbus, driving through this place on the way to the Polish boarder,
the reason i remember it is becaues instead of soil there was sand, i often wondered why.
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So I have been considering study abroad in Germany. I'm currently here on high school exchange and have been here since febuary. When I return to Australia I will return to university and start studying engineering. But I think given the opportunity to study in another country and another...
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/02/12/#tuesday
Slaughterhouse Five is an excellent movie.
Remembering the Dresden bombing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/4257253.stm
I have heard that the firebombin in Germany, particularly Dresden, was in retaliation for the German...
Well I missed it but I heard about it afterward.
Germany 3 - Portugal 1.
One of the German goals was scored by Portugal - a player accidentally knock the ball in his own goal. :frown: I feel sorry for that dude.
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Midfielder) scored two direct goals, and had a...
It's knockout time. Germany lead 2-0 at half time, after completely dominating the first half. I think the ref was totally wrong to send off Lucic. It looks like Germany got a lot of favourable decisions!
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i come from germany and i am going to participate international physics olympics 2007. however there are 4 rounds to choose the best 5 representatives for the country.
i am interested in the system of eligibility of your countries!
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/05/human.trafficking.ap/index.html"
Clearly, the U.S. believes and rightly so, that such actions are not right.
However, I believe that the U.S., being committed to only a particular part of the planet, and therefore only particular individuals and not all...
I was looking at maps.google.country (com or de for germany) and comparing random american suburbs with german suburbs. Both countries are similar since it seems that most people live in single family homes (or at most a few families) with gardens or yards around them. However there is a lot of...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4449662.stm
I'm a teenager. There's obviously many things I don't know. Perhaps there are some principals involved with this that I'm not aware of.
However, this seems rather opposed to almost everything I've heard about economics.
Obviously, the two...
Australia is Going to Germany!
Hey all you Aussies.
We're going to Germany! We're in the world cup! Did anyone else go to the game? I was at fed square in Melbourne. We had all of Flinders street blocked off while we were celebrating! yay! not since 1974! That's the first soccer game I've ever...
By GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press Writer
Merkel is a physicist btw. :cool:
More at - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050919/ap_on_re_eu/germany_election
The rise of Angela Merkel - BBC
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from http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5375/336
How cool is that? :cool:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050223/wl_afp/usbushgermanysecurity
"The protesters brandished placards reading "Terrorist Nr 1" and "Bush Swim Home" while police helicopters circled overhead"
Is this how the US president is considered/labeled by some Germans and...
Hello everyone,
Does anybody here attend a university in a German-speaking country or plan on doing so? Or is anybody from Germany/Austria/Switzerland or does anybody live there or have previously lived there? I'll be graduating in a couple years and I'm seriously considering graduate...