The very first revolution of 1848 testified to that faith ... territories assembled in Frankfurt to start planning for German unification. And from there, uprisings spread across Central Europe ...

Napoleon replaced it with the Confederation of the Rhine, a union of sixteen German states ... the Revolution of 1848, forcing the aforementioned Prussian king, Frederick William IV, to grant a ...

A quarter century after Berlin’s infamous wall fell, Germany has summarised its unification to date as a political success but an economic work in progress. An official study into the mammoth ...

German Unification Day. German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit ... and Frankfurt was the place of the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848–49). The annual celebrations are "hosted by a major city, ...

"German unity and European unification really are two sides of the same coin," said President Johannes Rau, speaking at the opera house in Dresden, a city known as the Florence of the North.