North German Confederation

North German Confederation
North Germany (Officially the Confederation of Northern German-Speaking states) (German: Norddeutscher Bund) is a loose confederation of majority German territories from various German-speaking states in Northern Germany. It was arranged and established by the Kingdom of Prussia following the collapse of the Confederation of the Rhine during the Franco-Rothiyan war. It was later dissolved and integrated into the German confederation following it's stalemate agreement with the French Empire.

The confederation did not include all of the territory which the German-speaking states owned, for an example, Prussia's province of Posen was part of the Kingdom of Prussia but not the Confederacy. It also included territory from non-majority German states, such as the Danish vassal state of Holsten, which formally was an integrated vassal and protectorate of the Danish realm within the Dano-Norwegian empire.