(countable; hist. pre-1871) Any of the German states. Melton’s useful new book traces the explosion of public institutions in eighteenth-century England, France and the Germanies
a country in central Europe, which was divided from 1945 until 1990 into West Germany and East Germany. Population: 83,030,000 (2001). Capital: Berlin. It is a member of the EU. officially Federal Republic of Germany Republic, north-central Europe. Federal Republic of Germany Germany East Germany West Social Democratic Party of Germany