However, this term is used in Australia ( Sydney for example ) to describe the regional trains operating beyond the boundaries of the suburban services, even though some of these " inter-city " services stop all stations similar to German regional services.

In addition, there is a small community of Danish speakers in Southern Schleswig, the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, where it is an officially recognised regional language, just as German is north of the border.

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

The Bundestag is directly elected by the German people, whilst the Bundesrat represents the regional states ( Länder ).

Episodes of widespread famine and disease devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent, the Low Countries, Bohemia and Italy, while bankrupting many of the regional powers involved.

One of the regional Piast dukes invited the Teutonic Knights to help him fight the Baltic Prussian pagans, which caused centuries of Poland's warfare with the Knights and then with the German Prussian state.

Ribbentrop played an important role in setting in motion the crisis that was to result in the end of Czecho-Slovakia by ordering German diplomats in Bratislava to contact Father Jozef Tiso, the Premier of the Slovak regional government, and pressuring him to declare independence from Prague.

The regional dialect of Low German spoken in Prussia ( or East Prussia ), Low Prussian, preserved a number of Baltic Prussian words, such as kurp, from the Old Prussian kurpi, for shoe ( in contrast to the standard German Schuh ).

However, the plans resulted in an outcry from the German minority population of Opolskie, who feared that should their region be abolished, they would lose all hope of regional representation ( in the proposed Silesian Region, they would have formed a very small minority amongst a great number of ethnic Poles ).

The BBC's use of announcers with strong regional accents, such as Yorkshire-born Wilfred Pickles, during the Second World War ( in order to distinguish BBC broadcasts from German propaganda ) is an earlier example of the use of non-RP accents.

Inspired by their example, regional families of Central European builders went further, creating churches and palaces that took the local German Baroque style to the greatest heights of Rococo elaboration and sensation.

The German term Hessen is used by the European Commission because their policy is to leave regional names untranslated ( paragraphs 1. 31 & 1. 35 ).

This objective resulted in the redrawing of the continent's political map, establishing the boundaries of France, the Duchy of Warsaw, the Netherlands, the states of the Rhine, the German province of Saxony, and various Italian territories, and the creation of spheres of influence through which Austria, Britain, France and Russia brokered local and regional problems.

He also had doubts about Germany's ability to gain air superiority over the English Channel and the lack of regional German naval superiority.

The national and regional governments are dominated by two political parties, the PS, a Social Democratic party, that resembles the British Labour or the German SPD, and the PSD, a conservative party, member of the European People's Party, that have similar base politics in some themes: both are Pro-Europe and support the market economy.

The seeds, whole or ground, are used in a wide variety of regional and ethnic confectioneries, including the black jelly bean, British aniseed balls, Australian humbugs, New Zealand aniseed wheels, Italian pizzelle, German Pfeffernüsse and Springerle, Austrian Anisbögen,

Among these early groups, the Irish band Cruachan and the German band Subway to Sally each spearheaded a different regional variation that over time became known as Celtic metal and medieval metal respectively.

The regional member of the Polish Parliament represented the German minority.

In December 1927 the Polish Ministry of Interior organized a conference of local and regional officials to discuss ways to de-Germanize the region and to obstruct the re-election of the German delegate.

In 1811, German philosopher Karl Krause, suggested, in an essay titled " The Archetype of Humanity ", the formation of five regional federations: Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia, aggregated under a world republic.

" According to a regional historian of note, Lillian Burns, the daughter of the early land developer, Owen Burns, the correct pronunciation of the name of the island by its early settlers was, an-na ma-rye-a, since it was named for the strong winds occurring in the area, using the German term for the wind, Maria.

* German Americans-German cuisine ( the Pennsylvania Dutch, although descended from Germans, arrived earlier than the bulk of German migrants and have distinct culinary traditions )

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

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

Some have speculated that a contributor to nouvelle cuisine was World War II when animal protein was in short supply during the German occupation.

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

Potatoes entered the German cuisine in the late 18th century, and were almost ubiquitous in the 19th century and since.

Garlic was long frowned upon for causing halitosis, so has never played a large role in traditional German cuisine, but has risen in popularity in recent decades due to the influence of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Turkish cuisines.

Bread ( Brot ) is a significant part of German cuisine.

The importance of bread in German cuisine is also illustrated by words such as Abendbrot ( meaning supper, literally evening bread ) and Brotzeit ( snack, literally bread time ).

Regarding bread, German cuisine is more varied than that of either Eastern or Western Europe.

Darker, rye-dominated breads, such as Vollkornbrot or Schwarzbrot, are typical of German cuisine.

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.

Barossa's early settlers brought their food traditions with them, instilling the region's cuisine with a strong German influence.

Regional cuisine often is also reflected in more recent migration patterns, with European influences ( such as Italian, Greek, French, German, Polish etc.

Chop suey has become a prominent part of American Chinese cuisine, Filipino cuisine, Canadian Chinese cuisine, German Chinese cuisine, Indian Chinese cuisine, and Polynesian cuisine.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

German philosopher Max Scheler distinguishes two ways in which the strong can help the weak.

Speakers from those regions, even those speaking Standard German, can usually be easily identified by their accent, even by an untrained listener.

German and international students are educated in more than 20 international or foreign-oriented programs and can acquire German as well as international degrees ( Bachelor / Master ) or Doppeldiplome ( double degrees ).

Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, brought by German immigrants to the United States, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.

The first year of the Eastern Front offensive can generally be considered to have had the last successful major mobile operation for the German army.

The main evidence of Liddell Hart's deceit and " tendentious " report of history can be found in his letters to the German Generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, as well as relatives and associates of Erwin Rommel.

The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.

For instance, manshonyagger derives from the German words " menschen " meaning, in some senses, " men " or " mankind ", and " jäger ", meaning a hunter ; referring to war machines that roam the wild lands between the walled cities and prey on men, except for those they can identify as Germans.

The rapid adoption of the compound crank can be traced in the works of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars, an unknown German engineer writing on the state of the military technology of his day: first, the connecting-rod, applied to cranks, reappeared, second, double compound cranks also began to be equipped with connecting-rods and third, the flywheel was employed for these cranks to get them over the ' dead-spot '.

In the case of an order of summary punishment ( Strafbefehl ), which can be issued by the court without a trial for lesser misdemeanours ( German: Vergehen ), there is a further exception:

The German university bureaucratic practice of using the post-nominal form, " Ph. D ." ( or equivalent ), to distinguish non-German doctorates can be challenged legally as evidence of arbitrary discrimination and prejudice against non-German nationals ( academics ).

The percentage of Low Saxon and High German loanwords can be estimated at 22 – 25 percent, with Low Saxon making up about 15 percent.

Many of the German films of the immediate post-war period can be characterised as belonging to the genre of the Trümmerfilm ( literally " rubble film ").

Similar in German with " ordinär " ( while a real equivalent for " ordinary " can be, especially in administrative or legal language, " ordentlich ", which however also means " decent " and " tidy ").

The name Geri can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective * geraz, attested in Burgundian girs, Old Norse gerr and Old High German ger or giri, all of which mean " greedy ".

The name Freki can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective * frekaz, attested in Gothic faihu-friks " covetous, avaricious ", Old Norse frekr " greedy ", Old English frec " desirous, greedy, gluttonous, audacious " and Old High German freh " greedy ".

Therefore, the literature of the late 14th and the early 15th century falls, as it were, in the cracks between Middle and New High German, and can be classified as either.

The classic image of the Gestapo officer, dressed in trench coat and hat, can be attributed to Gestapo offices in German cities and larger towns.

High German in this broader sense can be subdivided into Upper German ( Oberdeutsch, this includes the Austrian and Swiss German dialects ), Central German ( Mitteldeutsch, this includes Luxembourgish, which is now a standardized language ), and High Franconian which is a transitional dialect between the two.