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Variants of country name "Germany"?

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Why is Germany "Deutschland" in German, "Germany" or variants thereof in English and some other languages (such as Russian or Italian), and "Allemagne" (or variants thereof) in some Romance languages (e.g., French, Spanish)?

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Probably Romanic people made contact with the tribe of the Alamanni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alamanni... ; see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/germanic_pe... ) first and later used the name of the tribe for the whole country. There are more examples of this phenomenon: in Finnish and Estonian, Germany is called "Saksamaa", derived from the tribe of the Saxons. In many Slavic languages, Germans are called "Niemcy" - "those, who don麓t speak" - because they were the closest neighbours which would not be able to speak or understand anything Slavic.

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Hi Stephen, I don't really get the point of your question, every country translates other countries names into their own language...same goes with most cities..
because every country has a differen language so is amerca in german amerika
German evolved from a tribe name that inhibited
this part of Europe in the times of the Roman
Empire. Allemagne evolved from the name of the
tribes inhibiting the parts west of France. What's
west of France became Germany and the name
prevailed. "Deutschland" is a bit more tricky.
Actually it's the least understandable term.
It comes with a very long shot from teuton.