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Regarding your title: The genus of the article (grammar) is by no means optional. In this cas 'Der' would be the right article. If you want tor translate "The Rise of Bavaria" into german it would be: "Der Aufstieg Bayerns" or "Bayerns Aufstieg". "Der Bayrische Aufstieg" has a similar meaning...

I want to see that series sooo hard. And Kaylee in a skirt! This mus be nerdvana!

There is a significant difference between those german states that survived the congress of Vienna and those that didn't. While Württember, Saxony, Bavaria and Baden (and some other Hessian states) where given a higher rank (eg. Bavaria becoming a kingdom) and gained additional territories for...

@Dorozhand I'm sorry if I was too blunt or didn't make clear enough, that I was focussing on traditional middle-european heraldry upon it's heighday (12th-15th century). While I admit that all the tinctures you showed are in use today in some countries, there aren't any of them used in the...

The most important thing would be transport connections and therefore the geographic situation of the capital. 1. North to south: Somewhere along the Rhein (Rhine River) would be an obvious choice in the more western part of the Reich. It provides a not quite excellent north-south connection...

Well then Bonn will stay a village. We call it "Bundesdorf" for a reason :). Frankfurt will see a further increase in population, population density and areal expansion. Smaller cities around Frankfurt in southern Hessen and northern Bavaria might see an increase in population as well and some...

I guess the dutch were using mainly the "common" East Indiaman. see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiaman Too bad there wasn't a corporate design. And on first glimpse I couldn't find a typical East Indiaman's travelling speed. They varied in their cargo hauling capacity from ~400 to...

I have to say that according to the rules of classic heraldry neither purple nor orange are valid colors. Valid colors where silver and gold (metals) and green, red, blue, black (colors/non-metals). A color could not 'touch' another color but only a metal and vice versa. Remember that heraldry...

Restore the HRE at the Congress of Vienna? Historically most of the lesser german monarchs were in favor of the restoration of the HRE, as they felt threatened by the possibility of a resurging France as well as by Prussia. I'm not sure about Prussia's stance in this case as it might politcally...

Well I was hoping to find all Confederate victory threads in one place. So if one could hint me to some I would be grateful.

The flag of the "Zweites Kaiserreich" (2nd Empire) consisted of the prussian colours black and white from the Hohenzollern coat-of-arms and red. It is believed by most historians that the red originates from the formerly independent city-states (like Hamburg, Bremen and Frankfurt am Main), who...

No WWI -> Trenchcoats never come into fashion and Humphrey Bogart and the occassional Gestapo bogeyman have to wear other coats.

Could someone please help me and clean this one up? Rivers and Department borders should remain. I tried to clean it up myself but ended up with a very unclean an messed up map.

I used imageshack since they revised their using policies around february/march this year. I had to delete over one hundred pictures because now you're only allowed to have 500 pictures uploaded. And there is a harsh size limit. Maps I have uploaded via imageshack in february were shrunk by...

Try this imagehoster it has no restrictions. But I'm afraid it is only available in german. Nevertheless it might help.

The funny thing ist that you opposed all my points but let my main argument pass unchallenged... And I'm sorry that you got to oversimplify and exaggerate to make your points. If you want to do a "German-French Alliance Wank" of some sort than do it. Bring up a deus ex machina that paves...

And I can't remember a british-french alliance in the early 19th century. A whole lot. All my points 3 to 8 are not something the people of 1870 would have read in schoolbooks but have experienced themselves or had been told by their parents and grandparents. And therefore they are most...

I guess if you could travel back in time to the 19th century and propose to any frenchman or german that in roughly a hundred years an alliance of France and Germany stands at the core of europe after both were devastated in a war of yet unseen dimensions most of them (even before 1870) would...

OT: On topic of Nationalism. 1) The French Revolution let the genie out of the bottle. This spread out to the german and italian states as well as to the Netherlands (including Belgium) and to a lesser extend to Spain, Denmark and Poland. Nationalism was recognized as the "next big thing" on...

Go with Confederados US-Americans is a common term among germans. Though it is less often used in its english variant.