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I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago

I think the term "The Nethetlands" was coined after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when the northern provinces ,which became Lutheran, separated from the southern provinces which remained Roman Catholic.

The country was usually referred as "Holland" (a northern province) before then.

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