Grand duchy
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A grand duchy or grand dukedom is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess.
Coronation of Cosimo I de' Medici as Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1570.
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569–1860, part of Italy afterwards)
German Empire
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The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany or the Second Reich, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when Germ
Grand duchy
…Grand Duchy of Würzburg (1806–1814, absorbed into Bavaria afterwards) Grand Duchy of Baden (1806–1918, joined the German Empire in 1871) Grand Duchy of Hesse (1806–1918, joined the German Empire in 1871…
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (pictured in 1873)
Emperor Wilhelm I (pictured c. 1870)
Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner (1877), depicting the proclamation of Emperor William I (18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles). From left, on the podium (in black): Crown Prince Frederick (later Frederick III), his father the emperor, and Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. At center (in white): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.
Berlin Palace, the main residence of the House of Hohenzollern