Germany

A small country in north-central Europe that caused two world wars (in more recent times).

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.