 the states of the german confederation were those member states that from 20 june 1815 were part of the german confederation, which lasted, with some changes in the member states, until 24 august 1866, under the presidency of the austrian imperial house of habsburg, which was represented by an austrian presidential envoy to the federal diet in frankfurt. == explanation == on the whole, its territory nearly coincided with that remaining in the holy roman empire at the outbreak of the french revolution, with the notable exception of belgium. except for the two rival major powers, habsburg and prussia, and the western left bank of the rhine (which france had annexed, with tiny katzenelnbogen), the other member states or their precursors, making up most of present germany, had been within napoleon's confederation of the rhine. #the austrian empire, excluding the kingdom of hungary, the principality of transylvania, and croatia (all of which became parts of the apostolic kingdom of hungary within the danubian dual monarchy), the kingdom of lombardy-venetia (constituting parts lost to italy in 1859- viz. 1866), bukovina, the kingdoms of dalmatia and galicia ##kingdom of bohemia ##archduchy of austria (split into upper austria and lower austria in 1849) ##margraviate of moravia ##grand duchy of salzburg ##duchy of carinthia ##duchy of carniola ##duchy of upper and lower silesia ##duchy of styria ##littoral (consisting of gorizia and gradisca, istria and trieste) ##county of tyrol ##vorarlberg #the kingdom of prussia (without posen, east prussia and west prussia) ##brandenburg ##pomerania ##rhine province (until 1822, lower rhine and jÃ¼lich-cleves-berg) ##saxony ##silesia ##westphalia #the kingdom of bavaria (the third largest member) #the kingdom of saxony #the kingdom of hanover #the kingdom of wÃ¼rttemberg #the electorate of hesse #the grand duchy of baden #the grand duchy of hesse #the duchy of holstein (in personal union with the kingdom of denmark, was not a former member of the confederation of the rhine) ##the duchy of schleswig (a fief of denmark and together
Germany_geography-related_lists Germany_history-related_lists Lists_of_country_subdivisions States_of_the_German_Confederation