To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Where does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    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.

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