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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/North German Confederation
One of the functions of the Confederation was to handle the mail and issue postage stamps, upon which it commenced 1 January 1868.
The states were represented by the Bundesrat with 43 seats (of which Prussia held 17), whereas the people elected a parliament called Norddeutscher Reichstag.
The Confederation came into being after Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War.
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 Events
In 1829 Uhland was appointed professor at Tübingen, but, when he was refused leave of absence by the university to sit as a liberal in the Landtag (provincial diet), he resigned the professorship (1833).
Both duchies were to be admitted to the Zollverein (German Customs Union), headed by Prussia, though Austria was not a member.
Born of Jewish parents, he attended the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Göttingen where he finally took a degree in law with absolutely minimal achievement in 1825.
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(Biographies - U.S. Congress) GERMAN, Obadiah (1766—1842) Senate Years of Service: 1809-1815 Party: Democratic Republican...
(Encyclopedia) North German Confederation, 1867–71, alliance of 22 German states N of the Main River.
(Encyclopedia) German Volga Republic, former autonomous republic of the USSR, c.18,000 sq mi (46,600 sq km), along...
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 German - definition of German in Encyclopedia
From or related to Germany or its predecessor states - see also
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
The name 'German' is (not precisely) sometimes also used for the various peoples that lived in Germany and other parts of Central Europe during Antiquity or during the period of the Holy Roman Empire.
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