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Modern German New High German (NHG; ) is the term used for the most recent period in the history of the German language, starting in the 17th century. It is a loan translation of the German (). The most important characteristic of the period is the developme ...

spelling , ; ; ) is a German word for

Empire An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outpost (military), outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a hegemony, dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the ...

in its meaning as a state ruled over by an

Emperor The word ''emperor'' (from , via ) can mean the male ruler of an empire. ''Empress'', the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules ...

, used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is most known as a description of the Empire of Austria after its creation in 1804.''Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt für das Kaiserthum Oesterreich. Jahrgang 1858''
/ref> A later used German term for it is .

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Austrian Empire Empires German words and phrases {{Europe-hist-stub

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