3. You wanna help me out with the whole Germany/ Alemania/ Deutchland thing?
I've lived long enough to see "Peking" become "Beijing" (in fact, I took a year of Chinese and I can see it's not that far of a leap from "Jung Gwo" to "China"), but those three distinctly different names for one country (Germany) are really stretching my ability to understand.
Deutschland comes from the Old German word "diutisc" meaning folk or of the people.
The name Germany came from the imperial Roman name for the area Germania meaning neighbor.
The many names of Germany developed from the fact that Germany wasn't a unified nation until the 19th century...it was a bunch of different tribes with different names for the region.
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