Etymology of different names for GermansДЇrance was ruled by Franks who also conquered Other German tribes which also included a very large tribe named Alemanni who settled in Eastern Direction of Frankish realm, along the Swiss border and beyond, precisely the Alsace Lorraine region. Which is why different nations came to know them by names of different factions or tribes. (This does not imply that France did not play a similar role).ДЇrance was a nation for most of the time ever since Franks captured Gaul but Germans were separated into small states for most part of their history until the unification of 1871, which ironically also materialized after defeating the French in Franco-Prussian war of 1870. They have also traditionally dominated/or played an very important role in global affairs since ancient times. France is in the Western most reach of the Continent while Germany is in the center and had more dealings with Slavs in the East, Latins in the South, Nordics in the North and Frisian/Dutch in the West. Germany has a more important strategic location than France does. I believe this has to do with different nature of encountering Germans when it came to other nations. Why Germany is known in world in a diverse way? While Germany consisted of dozens of small states loosely arranged in the Holy Roman Empire, so the identities of the regions inhabitants from ancient times remained intact, whereas France essentially didn't exist until the beginning of the middle ages. France on the other hand was essentially formed from nothing early in the middle ages, the term Francia, later becoming France was simply natural, the name for the original inhabitants of France, the Gaul, is nowhere to be found. Germany remained splintered into many small states until 1871. The Slavs lived in eastern Germany, while the Nemets were one the westernmost Germanic tribes.ДЇor France, this is very different. Another theory would be, that it's named after the Nemets tribe, which I think is unlikely, due to the geography between Slavic tribes and the Nemets. Nemet - The protoslavic word for foreigner forms the final category and defines the name of Germany in many eastern European languages, their tribes came into contact with Germanic ones and the name stuck. This mostly applies to states around the Baltic, as the Saxons had a lot of contact with tribes in this area. Saksa - from the Saxon tribe in northern Germany (on a modern map of Germany, they lived in Schleswig-Holstein, the northern part of Niedersachsen and the western part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). Also of note is, that there is a Latin word for the tribe, which explains how it could survive in the Latin languages spoken in western Europe. France and Iberia, probably through the Moors it spread towards Arabia as well. This term is mostly used in the regions south and west of Germany, i.e. 500-800) mostly came in contact with one of the many Germanic tribes some names for Germany were derived from that one tribe. As people in the time between the collapse of the Roman empire and the creation of the Carolingian empire (ca. English also has the word Dutch, which was originally used to describe Germans, but nowadays only refers to residents of The Netherlands.ДЄllemagne - from the Alamanni tribe in what is today southwestern Germany. As this is the name the English used as well, it disseminated through English colonialism to many other languages. German - from the Latin Germania, this is what Germans were called in the roman empire and thus it's pretty widespread. Curiously, Italians then call the country 'Germania', following instead the etymology in the next point. That's also valid for Italian, as 'tedesco' is derived from Гћiudiskaz (of the people), the same root word of 'Deutsch'. The Tysk of the Norse language also stems from this.

On top of that, you have Germany's central location, out of all those factors the different names emerged based on mostly 5 different origins.Дeutsch - from the Germanic language, this is what Germans call themselves as well as most other Germanic languages (English being a notable exception). In short, Germany was never conquered by the Roman Empire, so several tribes maintained their identity as well as the Germanic language. Some parts of Switzerland use huitante for eighty, though octante may also be found in writing.The Wikipedia article on this is quite detailed. * In Belgium and Switzerland, septante and nonante are used for seventy and ninety. In Portuguese, two can also be feminine: duas In all four languages, one can be feminine: une, una, una, uma.

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