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As indicated toward the end of the previous chapter, this contribution deals specifically with the relationship between the German-speaking world and Central Europe, from the early Middle Ages up to the third partition of Poland in 1795. As we shall discover, the terms of this relationship have often been of decisive importance to both parties. Hence the rationale for a chapter which deals with the role of ‘Germany’ in the region. We shall also discover that in the Middle Ages Central Europe emerged as a region which after an early period of sociocultural rapprochement eventually came to differ from Western Europe by virtue of its specific socioeconomic, political and cultural structures. In the main, as with the previous two chapters, we shall concentrate on territory which today comprises the states of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
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Cordell, K. (2000). The Germans and Central Europe in the Pre-modern Era. In: Cordell, K. (eds) The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977477_4
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