Walmerian Nassuvian Germany

Ottonian Nassuvian Germany

Netherlandic Germany

Orange Nassuvian Germany

The House of Nassau emerged in the 11th century, but split into two counties in 1255—the Ottonian line dominating the north and the Walmerian line dominating the south. Both of those counties splintered on multiple occasions. Those splintered counties sometimes reunited, but the two lines created in 1255 never reunited. Because both lines continued to use the Nassau name, all counties in the Nassuvian nation, splintered or reunited, are hyphenated because “Nassau” by itself could refer to either line.

 

In 1702, one of the splinter counties on the Ottonian side (Nassau-Dietz) inherited the Principality of Orange (in southern France). At that point, I switch the nation for Nassau-Dietz from Ottonian Nassuvian Germany to Orange  Nassuvian Germany. Nassau-Dietz proceeded to gradually reunite the Ottonian lands and by 1743, the nation of Ottonian Nassuvian Germany had been completely replaced by that of Orange Nassuvian Germany. In 1747, the Prince of Nassau-Dietz became the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and I change the nation name to Netherlandic Germany. (“Dutch Germany” is too similar to “Deutsch Germany”, which could be interpreted as redundant. Note also that the Dutch Republic itself would be in the nation of Orange Nassuvian Netherlands.) When France conquered the Netherlands in 1795, the personal union ended and the nation name reverts to Orange Nassuvian Germany.