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Afrikaans: Duitsland; Chinese: 德意志 (pinyin: Déyìzhì), commonly 德國 or 德国 ( (Déguó; "Dé" from 德意志, and "guó" means "country")Danish: Tyskland ...
the underlining of Emmy communicates that this is the Rufname, even though it is the second of two official given names.. In Germany, the chosen name must be approved by the local Standesamt (civil registry office).
The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Common names (such as "red fox") are different across languages, whereas the scientific name does not change. In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same ...
Area settled by the Alemanni, and sites of Roman–Alemannic battles, third to sixth centuries. The Alemanni or Alamanni [1] [2] were a confederation of Germanic tribes [3] on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium.
A German Guatemalan is a citizen of Guatemala whose ancestors were German settlers (along with other settlers from Belgium) who arrived in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...
The English term Germans is derived from the ethnonym Germani, which was used for Germanic peoples in ancient times. [7] [8] Since the early modern period, it has been the most common name for the Germans in English, being applied to any citizens, natives or inhabitants of Germany, regardless of whether they are considered to have German ethnicity.