Germany "Land of Alamanes"

Germany is a country of Central Europe that forms a part of the European Union (EC). It limits to the north on the sea of the North, Denmark and the Baltic sea; eastwards with Poland and Czech Republic; on the south with Austria and Switzerland, and on the west with France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Netherlands. Germany means "land of the alamanes " it is not the same thing that German, in reference to one of the Barbarian peoples (villages) that crossed the river Rhine and they invaded the Roman Galia during the century V. Besides German, there is extended also the use of the national German one, derivative from the name with which the Romans knew to the zone and where there were other peoples(villages) to which it was known like German, Slang. During most of his(its) history, Germany was a geographical term(end) used to designate an area occupied by several States, the majority of which belonged (concerned) to the so called Sacred Empire Romano Germánico (of German Nation or Germanic). Germany turned into a State joined during 74 years (1871 - 1945 the so called German Empire, the known one as Republic of Weimar and the Germany Nazi.), but it(he) was divided at the conclusion of the Second World war in the Federal Republic of Germany (RFA), known as West Germany and the German Democratic Republic (RDA), known as East Germany. On October 3, 1990, the RDA happened to form a part of the RFA, for what Germany returned to be a unified State.

Germany has the most numerous population of all the countries of the EC. His territory spreads from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, in the north, up to the Alps, in the south, and it they cross some of the Europa's major(bigger) rivers as the Rhine, the Danube and Elba. Germany is a federal republic. The legislators to national scale are the Bundestag (lower house of the Parliament or Federal Assembly), which members are chosen every four years by universal suffrage, and the Bundesrat (high chamber(camera) or Federal Council), that consists of 69 representatives of all 16 federated States (Bundesländer). After the fall of the Wall of Berlin in 1989, the former RDA (German Democratic Republic) joined in the Federal Republic, which supposed the entry of five new Bundesländer in the European Union. The German is the language that possesses the speakers' bigger number in the European Union.

Germany is the third economy of the world: It's produces cars, precisions devices, electronic equipments and of telecommunications, chemical and pharmaceutical products, and much more. His companies have realized strong investments in the countries of Central Europe and oriental that entered the EC in 2004. As cradle of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner, between others, the contribution of Germany to the classic European music is very important. Regarding the thought and the literature, the immense German patrimony possesses Lutero's figures, Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, Kant, Brecht and Thomas Mann. Germany is the second world producer of hop, and the country is known by the quality of his beers. It produces wine in the valleys of the Moselle and of the Rhine.