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Hace 2 días · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
Hace 5 días · West Germanic: including Old Saxon (attested from the 5th c. CE), Old English (late 5th c.), Old Frisian (6th c.), Frankish (6th c.), Old High German (6th c.), and possibly Langobardic (6th c.), which is only scarcely attested; they are mainly characterized by the loss of the final consonant -z (attested from the late 3rd century ...
Hace 5 días · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.
Hace 4 días · Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period in British history from the 5th to the 11th century, beginning with the Roman withdrawal from Britain and ending with the Norman Conquest in 1066. This era was marked by the migration of Germanic tribes—mainly the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—to Britain. These groups gradually formed several kingdoms ...
Hace 2 días · Anglo-Saxonsociety and culture. The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British to Germanic.
Hace 1 día · The Saxon writer Adolf Meschendörfer published the novel Die Stadt im Osten in 1931 about Kronstadt, a Saxon city in Southern Transylvania. That urban novel cannot be ignored, even if he also wrote, in 1927, the poem ‘Siebenbürgische Elegie’, which ‘offered a dreamy glimpse into a rural Saxon world in danger of disappearing’ (p. 42).
Hace 4 días · Berlin, capital and chief urban center of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany.
