After Soviet forces entered this city in 1945, they destroyed the entire archives of an annual publication issued by Justus Perthes since 1785. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Thuringian city that names an exhaustive “almanac” of every prominent noble family in Europe. This city was the site of the merger between the “Eisenach Faction” and the General German Workers’ Association.
ANSWER: Gotha (GO-tah) [or the Almanach de Gotha]
[10m] The Almanach de Gotha’s inclusion of deposed dynasties annoyed Napoleon, who in 1807 demanded that the next edition omit all titles held by princes of this set of German client states formed after the Battle of Austerlitz.
ANSWER: Confederation of the Rhine [or Confédération du Rhin or Rheinbund]
[10e] Editions of the Almanach after 1917 mention this reigning British royal house, which changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha due to anti-German sentiment.
ANSWER: House of Windsor
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