Why do Germans call their country Deutschland?

Factual Questions
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Why do the Germans call their country Deutschland, and the rest of the world calls it Germany?

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Welcome to the SDMB, Thunder Owl! Cecil himself has addressed this question:

Why are there so many names for Germany, AKA Deutschland, Allemagne, etc.?

Many answers can be found using the SDMB search engine.

Arjuna34

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Good answer, Arjuna34! I couldn’t have said it better myself.
ThunderOwl, as you can say from Cecil’s column, the rest of the world does not call it Germany, only the english-speaking rest of the world.

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Did you know that the Japanese call their country “Nippon”?

Or that Hispanic countries call America the “E.E.U.U.”?
kisses nomenclature

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That’s an interesting column. But where does “Bavaria” come from?

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This is kind of an end run to a comment on Cecil’s Column, but since the subject exists here I’ll post here instead of starting a new thread over there.

I had always heard that Germany was named for Drusus Germanicus, the Roman General who attacked and conquered much of Germany. So now I’m really confused. Was Germanicus(which I had always understood to be a common-ish name) named after Germany, or is it a complete coincidence that a man named Germanicus conquered an area that later came to be known as Germany?(I would find that trully amazing).

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Perhaps a better question would be “Why does an auslander call Deutschland ‘Germany?’” Cecil, of course, has already provided the answer as noted above.

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Err…no…you have it sorta backwards. Roman generals added the names of the places they won victories as cognomens. Drusus won a big victory in the place the Romans called “Germania”, so he called himself “Germanicus”. Earlier, for example, there was a Roman named Quintius Cacelius Metellus, who fought a war with Numidia, then got the name Quintius Cacelius Metellus Numidicus. Even earlier, the Roman general who beat Hannibal, Publius Cornelius Scipo, became Publius Cornelius Scipo Africanus, etc.

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What does the Hispanic version of USA, E.E.U.U. stand for then?

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Do we?

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Well,

If you’re interested in German place-names here’s a web site I’ve found:

http://german.about.com/homework/german/library/weekly/aa051099.htm

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to explain where Bavaria/Bayern came from. Perhaps someone can do an OED search for Bavaria … I’m sure it’s just a (Latinized? Slavicized? Which is it?) form as in Oesterreich/Austria, Boehem/Bohemia, etc… What it originally meant, I haven’t the faintest clue.

Oh, and USA in Croatian is SAD. In Slovenian, ZDA (if I remember right), and in Hungarian, AEA (though I’ve never seen anyone actually write that.)

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What does the Hispanic version of USA, E.E.U.U. stand for then?

Estados Unidos=United States…I sometimes see this written as E.U.A.(Estados Unidos de America, United States of America). I dont know why the double E and U, when E.U. is enough.

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According to this web site:

http://segate.sunet.se/htbin/wa?A2=ind9906b&L=lantra-l&D=1&T=0&O=D&P=83428

it’s because the Spanish double the acronyms when referring to something that is plural. Interesting, eh?

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Interesting point. The word “teut” that meant people is now “mensch” in modern German. They should call themselves “Menschland”!