http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Germany
Wikipedia states:
The Kingdom of Germany was a medieval state[1] which grew out of that of East Francia in the tenth century, when the term regnum Teutonicum first came into informal use.
So did the Kingdom of Germany exist and if it did then does that mean that the German state did in fact exist before 1871.
2007-03-12 02:07:39 · 5 answers · asked by Robert P 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Holy Roman Empire was ex officio German King.
The German kingdom (but NB it was always that, never 'Kingdom of Germany') itself had started some time before the Holy Roman Empire was refounded in 962 AD.
2007-03-12 04:11:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Germany as it is today was made up of parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Within the Holy Roman Empire were hundreds of tiny nations that were bound together under the Holy Roman Emperor, but had their own rulers, too.
But if you're going all the way back to the tenth century, it was Germania, but hardly the Germany that we would envision today.
2007-03-12 09:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by crzywriter 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
IF A KING RULED A COUNTRY, then a kingdom exsists, especially a collection of states that had 'kings' under one ruler then it could be classed as a 'kingdom' ie, great Britain had loads of kings until one ruler defeated or subverted the minor kings under one banner, it is still classed as a kingdom, ergo united kingom of Great Britain, so Germany had many state kings, a loose collection of teutonic states that exsisted under a single ruler prior to 1871. LF
2007-03-12 09:22:13 · answer #3 · answered by lefang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you call it holy roman empire. The emperor was elected by the head of states that composed the empire
2007-03-12 09:27:36 · answer #4 · answered by Pelayo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the middle ages. centuries 8th - 13th
2007-03-12 09:43:38 · answer #5 · answered by sofista 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋