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The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. [12] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands'), is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of ...
For example, in the Anishinaabe languages, three terms for "Germany" exist: ᐋᓂᒫ (Aanimaa, originally Aalimaanh, from the French Allemagne), [15] [16] ᑌᐦᒋᒪᓐ (Dechiman, from the English Dutchman) [16] and ᒣᐦᔭᑴᑦ (Meyagwed, Ojibwe for "foreign speaker" [16] analogous to Slavic Némcy "Mutes" and Arab mute), of which ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Allemagne is the French name for Germany. It may also refer to: Communes in ...
The Krupp-Works in Essen, 1864 Many companies, such as steam-machine producer J. Kemna, modeled themselves on English industry. In 1800, Germany's social structure was poorly suited to entrepreneurship or economic development.
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
General map of Germany. Germany (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states").
Baden-Württemberg is formed from the historical territories of Württemberg, Baden and Prussian Hohenzollern. [14] Baden spans along the flat right bank of the river Rhine from north-west to the south (Lake Constance) of the present state, whereas Württemberg and Hohenzollern lay more inland and hillier, including areas such as the Swabian Jura mountain range.