Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 days agoI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germanymessage-squaremessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up1278arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1234arrow-down1message-squareI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in GermanyGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square223fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 days agoAFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.
AFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.