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== Geography == | == Geography == | ||
Baden is the area of present-day southwestern Germany. Although its borders have changed over time, when it was part of the German empire from 1871-1918<sup> </sup>(These years are important to family history research as the | Baden is the area of present-day southwestern Germany. Although its borders have changed over time, when it was part of the German empire from 1871-1918<sup> </sup>(These years are important to family history research as the FamilySearch Catalogs German records according to the boundaries as they existed at this time.), it was bordered on the south by the Rhine, on the northwest by The Palatinate, on the north by Hesse-Darmstadt and Bavaria, on the east by Württemberg, and the southeast by Hohenzollern and Lake Constance. Click here to see a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-DR-Baden.svg map of Baden]. | ||
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