The eastern part (which would soon unite with the central portion as the Holy Roman Empire) can roughly be regarded as the beginnings of what is now Germany, the western part, that of France.

东部(随后与神圣罗马帝国中部联合)被认为是当今德国的前身，西部则是当今的法国的起源。

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Thomas Dold of Germany and Australian Suzy Walsham are repeat winners at the annual Empire State Building Run-Up in New York City Tuesday.

德国的托马斯·多尔德和澳大利亚的苏齐·沃尔沙姆在2月3日举行的纽约帝国大厦爬楼比赛中双双蝉联冠军。

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The use of terra-cotta virtually died out when the Roman Empire collapsed, but it was revived in Italy and Germany in the 15th century.

赤陶的使用曾随罗马帝国的崩溃而一度绝迹，直到15世纪才在意大利和德国再次兴起。

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Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

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In short order, it became clear that even the crown jewel of the Soviet empire relatively prosperous East Germany could not long survive the severe brain-drain and unimpeachable evidence of an alternative, better existence that ensued when the Hungarians gave, as a practical matter, what the Honecker regime had long denied its people: the right to emigrate.

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Bonaparte destroyed the Holy Roman Empire, but that made possible the unification of Germany and the deadly mutation of Prussian nationalism.

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It is sometimes observed that places that once formed part of Charlemagne's empire France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands have been much more at ease with the modern-day drive for European unity than areas that fell outside it, notably Britain and Scandinavia.

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