* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

Viennese and German cuisine and pastries are also typically associated with this region.

Another, more specialized route is the ' Deutsche Uhrenstraße ' (" German Clock Road "), a circular route which traces the horological history of the region.

The German holiday of Fastnacht, or Fasnet, as it is known in the Black Forest region, occurs in the time leading up to Lent.

Public radio in Belgium is controlled by the VRT for the Dutch speaking region ( Flanders and Brussels ) the RTBF for the French speaking region ( Wallonia and Brussels ) and the BRF for the German community in Belgium.

Public television in Belgium is controlled by the VRT for the Dutch speaking region ( Flanders and Brussels ) the RTBF for the French speaking region ( Wallonia and Brussels ) and the BRF for the German community in Belgium.

The Lutician uprising of 983 practically annihilated it ; bishops continued to be named, but they were merely titular, until the downfall of the Wends in the twelfth century and the German eastward settlement in the diocesan region revived the bishopric.

The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: " Regio TriRhena ".

The German population was expelled from the region.

The discoveries of Paul Broca were made during the same period of time as the German Neurologist Carl Wernicke, who was also studying brains of aphasiacs post-mortem and identified the region now known as Wernicke's area.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

Due to the respective local East Franconian German dialects, the adjacent northeastern region of Baden-Württemberg called Tauberfranken and parts of southern Thuringia are also considered as Franconian regions.

Both the Russian and German empires had political, economic and military interests in the Finnish region.

German cuisine has evolved as a national cuisine through centuries of social and political change with variations from region to region.

German doughnuts ( which have no hole ) are usually balls of yeast dough with jam or other fillings, and are known as Berliner, Pfannkuchen ( only in the Berlin area ), Kreppel or Krapfen, depending on the region.

Bread rolls, known in Germany as Brötchen ( a diminutive of Brot ), Semmel, Schrippe, Rundstück or Weck, Weckle, Weckli, or Wecken, depending on the region, are common in German cuisine.

Protestant and Catholic troops alike burned and plundered the region and the population was decimated there as it was throughout the German states.

The gegenschein ( German for " countershine ") is a faint brightening of the night sky in the region of the antisolar point.

The authorities made efforts to Germanize the region, particularly after the founding of Germany in 1871, and from 1886 onwards the Prussian Settlement Commission was active in increasing German land ownership in formerly Polish areas.

Gabbro was named by the German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch after a town in the Italian Tuscany region.

Stem Duchies ( tribal duchies ) in Germany were mainly the areas of the old German tribes of the region, especially in the east.

The German region developed out of the East Frankish kingdom, East Francia.

However, remnants of several stem duchies survive today as states or regions in modern Western Europe countries: German states such as Bavaria and Saxony, German regions like Swabia, and French régions such as of Burgundy, and Lorraine.

In 1524 the German Peasants ' War broke out in Swabia, Franconia and Thuringia against ruling princes and lords, following the preachings of Reformist priests.

Meanwhile, the German princes had elected another king, Rudolf of Swabia.

As his son, Frederick II, though already elected king, was still a small child and living in Sicily, German princes chose to elect an adult king, which resulted in the dual election of Frederick Barbarossa's youngest son Philip of Swabia and Henry the Lion's son Otto of Brunswick, who competed for the crown.

Philip of Swabia, elected German king in 1198, changed the coat of arms, and the lion was replaced by three leopards, probably derived from the arms of his Welf rival Otto IV.

Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place.

Immediately, fearing that Pepin would be stirred up to revolt by his nobles and desiring to reform his morals, Louis the Pious summoned all his forces to meet in Aquitaine in preparation of an uprising, but Louis the German garnered an army of Slav allies and conquered Swabia before the emperor could react.

In the spring of 839, Louis the German invaded Swabia, Pepin II and his Gascon subjects fought all the way to the Loire, and the Danes returned to ravage the Frisian coast ( sacking Dorstad for a second time ).

In 1147 he became Duke of Swabia, and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanying his uncle, the German king Conrad III, on the Second Crusade.

The German princes refused to give the crown to his nephew, the duke of Swabia, for fear he would try to regain the imperial power held by Henry V. Instead, they chose Lothair III ( 1125 – 1137 ), who found himself embroiled in a long-running dispute with the Hohenstaufens, and who married into the Welfs.

Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia, carried on with the remnants of the German army, along with the Hungarian army under the command of Prince Géza, with the aim of burying the emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.

* June 21 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and rival to Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, is assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach, because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.

He sent his nephew Otto I, Duke of Swabia and Bavaria, back to Germany with the news of the defeat and to call the German nobles to the assembly, but he died en route on November 1, 982, in Lucca.

As a result, he became an important vassal in Swabia, the former Alemannic German stem duchy.

Pope Gregory X, in spite of Otakar's protests, not only recognised Rudolph himself, but persuaded King Alfonso X of Castile ( another grandson of Philip of Swabia ), who had been chosen German ( anti -) king in 1257 as the successor to Count William II of Holland, to do the same.

* Liudolf, Duke of Swabia and Conrad the Red rebel against German King Otto I.

He was born in the Stauffenberg castle of Jettingen between Ulm and Augsburg, in the eastern part of Swabia, at that time in the Kingdom of Bavaria, part of the German Empire.

For about four hundred years the district formed part of the Frankish empire, being administered by counts, but in the 9th century the German Duchy of Swabia subsumed it.

Philip of Swabia ( German: Philipp von Schwaben ; August 1177 – 21 June 1208 ) was of the House of Hohenstaufen.

Because of King Ludwig I's passion for all things Hellenic, the German name for Bavaria today is spelled " Bayern ", using the Greek ' y ', it also reflects the growth of Bavaria after the Congress of Vienna into culturally non-Bavarian areas, e. g. Franconia and Swabia, and the attempts to integrate them into the newly formed kingdom.

Therefore, Ladislaus sought the alliance of the German king's rivals, and in 1078, he married Adelaide, the daughter of Duke Rudolf I of Swabia, who had been proclaimed King of Germany by the emperor's opponents.

After the marriage, Henry took part in the warfare between the king and the Hohenstaufen brothers, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia ( who was Henry's brother-in-law, having been married with his sister Judith ), and Conrad, Duke of Franconia, afterwards the German king Conrad III.

The ancestors of Pennsylvania German speakers came from various parts of the southwest corner of the German-speaking region of Europe, including the Electorate of the Palatinate, the Duchy of Baden ( Badenland ), Swabia, Württemberg, Alsace ( German Elsass ), and Switzerland.