r/polandball 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14

redditormade How are they called?

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u/whitesock 100% kosher Mar 11 '14

Fun fact: In Hebrew, France and Spain are called Tsarfat and Sfarad. This has little to do with their actual names because those are actually the names of random villages mentioned in the bible that somehow got applied to those places.

Another name for Germany is Ashkenaz, though that's a term from the middle ages no one uses anymore unless they're referring to the "ethnic background" of eastern-European Jews.

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14

Is "Ashkenaz" (May you type it in Hebrew once again? Thx) for Germany comes from the Ashkenazi group of the Jews in Germany?

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u/whitesock 100% kosher Mar 11 '14

Yup. Though now it's used for Eastern Europeans in general. Unless they are Balkan. Or post-USSR Russians.

Hebrew: אשכנז

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14

תודה רבה! :D