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The history of Bavaria stretches from its earliest settlement and its formation as a stem duchy in the 6th century through its inclusion in the Holy Roman Empire to its status as an independent kingdom and finally as a large Bundesland (state) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria established the independence of the Free State as a constituent part of the Federal Republic of Germany. Drawn up by freely elected Bavarian politicians, the new democratic constitution was adopted by the State Assembly on 26 October 1946.
It was later incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire, became the independent Kingdom of Bavaria after 1806, joined the Prussian-led German Empire in 1871 while retaining its title of kingdom, and finally became a state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.
The word "Freistaat" (Free State) was first used in 1731 to designate the independence of the Swiss Confederation from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation since 1648.
6 days ago · Under its constitution of 1946, Bavaria is a free state with democratic parliamentary institutions. Voters directly elect representatives to the Landtag (state parliament) for five-year terms. The Landtag chooses a minister-president and a cabinet.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria governs the independence of the Free State as a federal state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was passed by the National Assembly on 26 October 1946.
6 days ago · Under the Basic Law (constitution) of West Germany of 1948, Bavaria became a state of the Federal Republic. The postwar era saw Bavaria dramatically transformed from a largely agricultural society to an urban industrial one, as Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder (“economic miracle”) took hold.
