Germany

A small country in north-central Europe, 'recently' responsible for 2 world wars.

Occupied since c. 500 B.C. by Germanic tribes, the region became part of the Frankish empire by the sixth century A.D. Later it became a loose federation of principalities and the nucleus of the Holy Roman Empire until the imperial state was broken up by Napoleon in 1806. Germany became a confederation after 1815 and then an empire centered around Prussia (1871-1918).

Currently Berlin is the capital and largest city. Population roughly: 81,410,001.