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How many principalities were there in the Holy Roman Empire?
In the 18th century, the Holy Roman Empire consisted of approximately 1,800 such territories, the majority being tiny estates owned by the families of Imperial Knights.
What is the difference between the medieval and the Byzantine?
Unlike Western Europe in the Middle Ages, the Byzantine Empire is not romanticized in television and film. In the medieval West, the Roman Empire fragmented, but in the Byzantine East, it remained a strong, centrally-focused political entity. Byzantine Art is broken into three periods.
What was the relationship between the pope and the German kings?
German monarch Otto sought to re-establish the power of the Holy Roman Empire and appointed himself King of the Romans. As the power of the German kings grew, so did the power of the pope. Kings fought for control of Italian city-states, while the pope fought for power within the secular world.
What was the relationship like between Prussia and Poland?
Prussia retained a certain level of autonomy under Polish rule. Later, the Kingdom of Prussia rose and eventually became one of the three partitioners of Poland in 1772–1795. Following the partitions various anti-Polish policies were pursued, including the Kulturkampf, Germanization and expulsions of Poles.
What was the relationship between Poland and Germany like during the Cold War?
The Cold War saw good relations between the communist states of People’s Republic of Poland and the German Democratic Republic. Polish- West German relations, on the other hand, remained bad, although they improved after Chancellor Willy Brandt launched the Ostpolitik.
How did the Partitions of Poland affect the Polish population?
The partitions took place in 1772, 1793 and 1795. Under Prussian rule in areas where the Polish population lived alongside Germans a virtual apartheid existed, with bans on the Polish language and religious discrimination, besides attempts to colonize the areas with Germans. Germanisation policies were pursued by Prussia and, since 1871, Germany.