AFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.
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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoWhere does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 months ago
teft@piefed.social 2 months ago
It comes from from french and originally from latin alamanus. There was a germanic tribe there called the the Allamani.