Holy Roman Empire Minor States

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962 – 1806 · up to 556 thousand km² · Europe

Capital: Aachen (962–1346), Prague (1346–1437), Prague (1583–1611), Vienna (1497–…), Regensburg (1594–…), Wetzlar (1689–…)

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity comprising and controlling much of Central Europe and Western Europe, headed by the Holy Roman Emperor and characterized by a decentralized political structure. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. Initially, it consisted of three constituent kingdoms—Germany, Italy, and Burgundy—held together by the emperor's overlordship.

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Predecessors: Middle Francia, East Franks, Kingdom of Germany

Successors: Confederation of the Rhine, Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Saxony

Events on its territory

• c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age
• c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press
• 1648 Peace of Westphalia
• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War