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History

Emergence

In the first centuries CE, the Germanic tribes formed tribal societies with no apparent form of autocracy (chiefs only being elected in times of war), beliefs based Germanic paganism and speaking a dialect still closely resembling Common Germanic. Following the end of the migration period in the West around 500, with large federations (such as the Franks, Vandals, Alamanni and Saxons) settling the decaying Roman Empire, a series of monumental changes took place within these Germanic societies. Among the most important of these are their conversion from Germanic paganism to Christianity, the emergence of a new political system, centered on kings, and a continuing process of emerging mutual unintelligibility of their various dialects. From this, new ethnic groups would gradually start to emerge which would slowly transcend the earlier tribal and linguistic structure.

This process

For example, the Second Germanic consonant shift (part of a linguistic process beginning in the 5th and completed in the 10th century) is often seen as the first innovation unique to what would become the German language. However, though the resulting High German dialects would later form the basis for the German standard language as written down in the Luther Bible, it would not become widespread until the 16th and 17th century. Similarly, though initially homogeneous, the Protestant Reformation saw German-speaking Europe divided among religious lines with the North largely adopting Lutheranism while the South remained Roman Catholic. Creating religious tensions alongside it which would remain clearly visible in German society up until the 20th century.

In the 19th and first half of the 20th century many German nationalists, held the view that peoples like the English, Scots, Dutch, Swiss and Scandinavians were offshoots of an originally all encompassing German nation. For example, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, considered the founding father of German nationalism, defined the German nation as consisting of those who had left their fatherland (which Fichte held to be Germany) during the time of the Migration Period and had become either assimilated or heavily influenced by Roman language, culture and customs, and those who stayed in their native lands and continued to hold on to their own culture.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Lead is meant to be a summary of the article, and the practice is to keep the Lead as free from footnotes as possible. If you go to the relevant section, in this case "Criticism of the "Islamic State"", and still can't find footnotes that back up the statements, your can put "citation needed" tags there. In fact, I have just done it myself for that last paragraph in the Lead! --P123ct1 (talk) 22:18, 6 October 2014 (UTC)