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For the opposite, see Category:German people by descent. Subcategories. This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. ...
In some contexts, people of German descent are also called Germans. [2] [1] In historical discussions the term "Germans" is also occasionally used to refer to the Germanic peoples during the time of the Roman Empire. [1] [9] [10] The German endonym Deutsche is derived from the Old High German term diutisc, which means "ethnic" or "relating to ...
The etymology of the Latin word Germani, from which Latin Germania and English Germanic are derived, is unknown, although several proposals have been put forward. Even the language from which it derives is a subject of dispute, with proposals of Germanic, Celtic, and Latin, and Illyrian origins. [9]
German people of Jewish descent (3 C, 244 P) L. German people of Latin American descent (15 C) N. German people of North American descent (6 C) O.
Bavarian (Austro-Bavarian) speaking areas. There is no ethno-linguistic distinction between Bavarians and Austrians.The territory of Bavaria has changed significantly over German history; [3] in the 19th century the Kingdom of Bavaria acquired substantial territories of Franconia and Swabia, while having to return territories to Austria who had become Bavarian only a few years earlier.
Swedish people of German descent (5 C, 173 P) Swiss people of German descent (4 C, 62 P) T. Turkish people of German descent (2 C, 16 P) U.
Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, from the East Coast, where the first German settlers arrived in the 17th century, to the West Coast and in all the states in between. German Americans and those Germans who settled in the U.S. have been influential in almost every field, from science, to architecture, to ...