Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agoI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germanymessage-squaremessage-square225fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1239arrow-down1message-squareI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in GermanyGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square225fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 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.