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Arnovia: Small country between Switzerland, the German Empire, and Austria-Hungary; year 1911. Book Peril in Paris from the series Taylor & Rose: Secret Agents, written by Katherine Woodfine. Arstotzka : The communist state in the video game Papers, Please where the player character works as an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint.
The form in Þiðreks saga appears to be a distortion of Karlunga-land, from the MHG name. [208] In German tradition, the name is especially associated with Walter of Aquitaine. [132] In the Þiðreks saga, the location of Sigurd/Siegfried's kingdom, south of Frakland (France).
The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations in ancient times. This information comes from various ancient historical documents, beginning in the 2nd century BC and extending into late antiquity .
The common Chinese name 德国 (德國, pinyin: Déguó) is a combination of the short form of 德意志 (pinyin: déyìzhì), which approximates the German pronunciation of Deutsch 'German', plus 國 guó 'country'. The Vietnamese name Đức is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation (đức) of the character 德 that appears in the Chinese name.
Many of the German names are now exonyms, but used to be endonyms commonly used by the local German population, who had lived in many of these places until shortly after World War II. Until 1866, the only official language of the Austrian Empire administration was German. Some place names were merely Germanized versions of the original Czech ...
After the Austro-Prussian War, Prussia led the Northern states into a federal state called the North German Confederation (1867–1870). The Southern states joined the federal state in 1870/71, which was consequently renamed the German Empire (1871–1918). The state continued as the Weimar Republic (1919–1933).
Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix.For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from æþele, meaning "noble", and ræd, meaning "counsel".
Named after Francis Xavier Pierz (Pierz was the German version of his last name: Pirc). Pilsen: Kansas: German name for Plzeň, Czech Republic. Posen: Illinois: German name for Poznań, Poland. Posen: Michigan: German name for Poznań, Poland. Potsdam: Ohio: Potsdam: New York: The town is named after the city of Potsdam in Germany. Prussia ...