GERMANY Antonyms

• a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century

• a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

• French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)

• a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD

• a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

• a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991

• formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia

• a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917

• a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state

• a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power

• a landlocked federal republic in central Europe

• a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom