When did Germany become a nation?

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German Unification, 1871

The German states were first unified as a (federal) nation-state in 1871. The new Germany was in many respects an expanded Prussia ... (Austria had been expelled from the German Confederation by Prussia in 1866).

However, Germany had existed as a cultural nation long before 1871.

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