{"id":1002,"date":"2023-01-12T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovefortraveling.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:51:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:51:40","slug":"what-do-germans-call-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovefortraveling.com\/what-do-germans-call-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Germans call Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What do Germans call their country? It’s not “Germany.”<\/strong> What they call it is actually more complicated than you might think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name of the Country and its people have changed quite a bit throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It all started when Germanic tribes settled on both sides of the Rhine River during Roman times, which led to them being called “Rhini.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Romans eventually gave up trying to control these wild peoples after repeated attempts had failed, so they just gave them an area to govern and then left them alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over time, this region became known as “Germania” or “Germaynia,” but how did that region come to be called Germany?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name Germany itself comes from the Latin “Germania.” The Romans named it after a tribe called the “Germani,” which meant fierce or warlike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The French and English also called Allemagne, Deutschland, and Allemagne to separate themselves from their enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dutch used Neder- and later Nederland, both of which are the same as the German name for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Latin name Germania stayed in use throughout Europe until about the 15 century. It eventually fell out of favor in some regions and was renamed “Allemagne” – similar to the current French name for Germany today: Allemagne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n