Germany (disambiguation)
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(1)   A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
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  1. Country in Central Europe. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
  2. (countable; hist. 1949-1990) Either of the German states, FRG and GDR. The two Germanies exchanged permanent representatives in 1974.
  3. (countable; hist. pre-1871) Any of the German states. Melton’s useful new book traces the explosion of public institutions in eighteenth-century England, France and the Germanies.

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