Germany is the country of Berlin, Munich and the Rhine, in the middle of Europe. In Germany, made in Germany, the German language.
It is always capitalised. It is the most populous country in the European Union and shares borders with nine others. It was divided into East and West from 1949 until reunification in 1990, which is within living memory and shapes a great deal of its politics. The language is German, the people are Germans, and Deutschland is what the country calls itself.
1noungermanyA country in central Europe with Berlin as its capital.
“Germany has about eighty-four million people.”
germany is a country.
Middle English
Germanie
English
Germany
English, today
germany
Built from
Germany comes from Middle English Germanie. From Middle English Germanie, from Old English Germanie & Germania, from Latin Germānia (“land of the Germans”), from Germānī, a people living around and east of the Rhine first attested in the 1st century works of Julius Caesar and of uncertain etymology. The exonym was said by Strabo to derive from germānus (“close kin; genuine”), making it cognate with germane and german, but this seems unsupported. Attempts to derive it from Germanic or Celtic roots since the 18th century are all problematic, although it is perhaps cognate with the Old Irish gair (“neighbour”). a doublet of Germania. In reference to a medieval kingdom, English Germany is usually an anachronism using the Roman name to describe the area or calquing various Latin - terms like rex Teutonicorum ("king of the Teutons"), which were often derogatory exonyms rather than formal titles.
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