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 372 A Short History of The World -was unified as an empire, and the King of Prussia was added to the galaxy of European Caesars, as the German Emperor. For the next forty-three years Germany was the leading power upon the European continent. There was a Russo-Turkish war in 1877-8, but thereafter, except for certain readjustments in the Balkans, European frontiers remained uneasily stable for thirty years.