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Although Germany has long been characterised as the prototypical birthright citizenship country, it should be first mentioned that during the first half of the nineteenth century many of the independent German states actually had a tradition of principle of residence rather than an emphasis on birthright. Birthright citizenship was first introduced by Bavaria in 1818 and then finally implemented by the German Nationality Law of 1913 (Fessler,
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