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Germany - the country's history app for iPhone and iPad


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Games Book Trivia Word
Developer: Evgeny Erohin
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 24 Apr 2016
App size: 27.37 Mb

* Study the history of great country through interactive reading *
* Become a real expert and participate in the global rankings of erudites *

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire. Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the Franks conquered the other West Germanic tribes. When the Frankish Empire was divided among Charlemagnes heirs in 843, the eastern part became East Francia. In 962, Otto I became the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the medieval German state. In the High Middle Ages, the regional dukes, princes and bishops gained power at the expense of the emperors. Martin Luther led the Protestant Reformation against the Catholic Church after 1517, as the northern states became Protestant, while the southern states remained Catholic. The two parts of the Holy Roman Empire clashed in the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), which was ruinous to the twenty million civilians....