List Of German Monarchs
This is a list of a monarchs, who ruled over the German-speaking territories of central Europe from the creation of a separate Eastern Frankish Kingdom in 843 until the end of German Empire in 1918. It also includes the heads of the various German confederations after the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
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