The ethnological collection is among the oldest in German-speaking territory, and includes around 20,000 artworks and everyday artefacts from all parts of the world.

But Bohemian Germans favored creating a Greater Germany out of various German-speaking territories.

Consider the largely German-speaking territory in the middle of Europe at the end of the Napoleonic Era.

However, Austria posed a problem because the Habsburgs ruled large chunks of non German-speaking territory.

In many German-speaking territories, for example the Kingdom of Württemberg.

German-speaking territories annexed to Germany from 1938 were generally organised into Reichsgaue.

They were a popular genre of printed work in German-speaking territories from the 15th to the 17th century.

By November of that year they spread via Savoy to German-speaking territories.

Further complicating the situation, delegations such as the Czechs and Slovenians made strong claims on some German-speaking territories.

For Joseph or his successors to wield influence in the German-speaking states, they needed to acquire additional German-speaking territories.