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9:44 Vorpommern doesn't mean close to Pomerania. It instead is an abbrevation for Vorderpommern which means "the Pomerania in the front". The other part east of the Oder river, in Poland, is referred to as Hinterpommern meaning "the Pomerania in the back". This refers to the fact that germans moved into the region in the middle ages from the west and Vorpommern was the part of Pomerania which was just in front of them and Hinterpommern was further away in the back.
In literature it's usually translated as Hither- & Farther Pomerania into English. Some authors suggests it has nothing to do with eastwards migration, but with the political division of Pomerania into & by multiple political entities (before the Cold War annexation of much of Pomerania into Poland).
Stettin (today Szczecin) and the river Oder divided pomerania in Vorder- and Hinterpommern. This division was made just for geographical/tactical reasons as the Oder mouth and Stettin were strategically important, with the city controlling trade in the region and acting as garnison to enforce the territorial claims. And since that part, with all it's worth, was given to Poland in 1945 the name "Vorderpommern" as a description of the german part of pomerania would have been (historically) wrong, hence the new word "Vorpommern".
To add more detail, after Napoleon got kicked out, roughly speaking the areas west of the Rhine were given to Prussia, which created a “Rhine province” out of them. After WW II, the Northern part of that province fell into the British zone and the Southern half into the French zone. The British then combined their Northern half with the “province” of Westphalia into North Rhine-Westphalia.
"Vor" doesnt mean "near" but "in front of", but can also mean "the front part" (vorderteil), from wich it actuall takes its name. The whoel region was/is known as "pommern" with the part west of the Oder(Which today is the border between germany and polan) known as "vorpommern" and the part east of the Oder knwon as "hinterpommern"
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According to the history of Hamburg, the name originates from the Hammaburg which was a small village since the early 9th century. Ham or Hamme means "marsh area by the river" in old saxon and a Burg is a fortified area as mentioned correctly in die video.
While Berlin - Bär connection is indeed folk etymology, the crest with the bear might stem from Albert of the House of Askanier, the first margrave of brandenburg. His nickname was "the bear". I think, the most likely explanation is that the place was called "Berlin" as "swamp" by the slavic people and the new german settlers took it to mean "little bear" and built the city there and named it that way to also honor Albert. The crest could thus stem from a "fortunate" translation error.
Some more lore on the name Württemberg: The name derieves from the noble house "Württemberg". Their original castle used to be on the "Württemberg/Rotenberg" today in Stuttgart. Over the time they came to rule over most of Swabia and the region and Duchy/Kingdom came to be named after them.
Bavaria almost correct. The Boii or Boier who lived in the region actually lived or shared the land with local Germanic tribes, making them the Bajuwaren. (Baio for the boii and warioz being a old germanic word for man). And these bajuwaren are basiclly the ancestors of Austria , Bavaria and small parts of Czechia or Böhmen in German.
Why you used as an illustration of Ibrahim ibn Jakub - an Arabic merchant painting of prince of the Polans, Mieszko considered as first historical Polish leader? I know that Ibrahim was one of the first to describe Mieszko's realm, but they were quite different people.
Nordrhein means „the northern parts of the Rhine land“, so land on both sides of the northern German part of the river, not specifically the area north of it.
The "Ham" in Hamburg actually derives from the type of """"castle"""" that was build there as well. It was called a "Hammer Burg" which is basically just an earthen wall / earth covered wall of logs upon logs that provided safety for the people there. Depending on how your german is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q-SvC6vS0VQ.html This a video of the archeology museum of Hamburg that shows what remains have been found and how we can be so sure that is what happpend. SUUUPer fascinating! Can recommend
I thought first Hamburg would be related to Swedish hamn, harbor. Nordic countries are full of harbor forts. In Finland we have a coastal city Hamina. Etymology is complicated and certainly interested!
Hello there from Germany. I can tell you at least in modern german that the "Vor" in "Vorpommern" does not mean "near" as refered in your video. It means "in front" as the other part of pommerania is nowadays a part of Poland and this is called "Hinterpommern", where "hinter" means "in behind". So there is a frontal and a rear Pommerania, which leads then to land in front of the sea and land behind the sea. I also would suggest that for Saxony-Anhalt the suggestion with the "stopping point" could fit. As the Saxons were once coming from what is nowadays lower saxony and taking over the lands to the east via migration/conquest and assimlation of the former sparsely populated (by slaws) areas, this happened in 2 waves. The first was going up to the river Elbe, which would more or less fits it nowadays border. And later on across the Elbe. It is also to mention that the word "Anhalt" literally means in modern high german to stopp.
Fun Fact: "saxony" is the only state with saxony in its name that was never inhabited by actual saxons. They got it cause on of their rulers became duke of saxony (without actually owning any saxon land). Since all real saxonys have a secondary discriptor i am herefor proposing "Sachsen-Falschheit" (saxony-falsehood)
Exactly, Saxony is called after the Saxons, but the people there are a mix of the local Slavic population with the Franks, Thuringians, and Bavarians that moved there during the German eastwards expansion. It’s basically name robbery and cultural appropriation.
Nah, the old Saxony has vanished after the emporer took the title of duke away from their leader. The "new" Saxony is only named like that, because some other emporer handed out the title again to another nobleman, who lived somewhere near Anhalt I would say. His domain extended over both Saxony and Saxony Anhalt and later split, because the dynasty had some line of succession issues. The lower Saxony of today has nothing to do with any of that. The area was mostly ruled by Prussia until WW2, and since Prussia was destroyed as a consequence of the war they decided to create a new state and had no better idea than to name it Niedersachsen.
No, the Saxons came here during the great migration during which the anglo-saxons also migrated over to Britain, forming what would become England, the land of the anglo-saxons. The region of lower Saxony on the north sea coast is also frisia and has been frisian since before christian times. We frisians (I am an east frisian) have nothing to do with the saxons
The tribe of the Saxons originated from the area south of present-day Hamburg and then spread out into present-day Lower Saxony and along the Elbe River into present-day Saxony-Anhalt. Therefore, both Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony can rightfully claim to be the home of the originally Saxons. The first German king (Henry I.) and then the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (Otto I.) both hailed from the area just north-east of the Harz mountains, i.e. from what is now Saxony-Anhalt. Both of them would have referred to themselves as Saxons. The present-day Free State of Saxony, however, has nothing to do with the Saxons and was originally a Slavic territory. Later it emerged under the name of Meissen (Misnia) and then as Kur-Sachsen. Just to add to the confusion, the royal family of Saxony, the House Wettin, originated from the small town of Wettin, which is actually located in present-day Saxony-Anhalt.
@@matthiasbauer5163 the Saxon Tribes originated around the lower Weser and the center of their culture never moved. thats why the saxon nobility died in southern lower saxony while the last free Saxons died in north-western northrhine westphalia
You are wrong - at least partly. While the name Bayern indeed comes from the tribe of the Bajuwaren, they got their name from the celtic Boier. The video took a shortcut immediately to the Celts and left the Bajuwaren. Proof (in German, didn't find a reliable English source right now): "Dabei trägt das Hinterglied germ. *warjoz/lat. -varii 'Verteidiger, Bewohner' die Hauptbedeutung, die durch das Vorderglied näher bestimmt wird. Dieses dürfte den geographischen Bezug zu einem ehemals mit den keltischen Boiern verbundenen Gebiet anzeigen." - Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, Eintrag: Bayern (Name)
There is a statement that you have posted typed out in the video that is about “Free States“ in Germany, it says: from the 19th century, when Imperial Germany became a republic. - well Germany never became a republic till the 20th century after World War I and then again after WWII.
It also misses the explanation why most states abandoned the term: it's because the term used in the German constitution to describe the states changed. The Weimar constitution used the term "Staaten", where the current Grundgesetz uses the term "Länder".
To be fair germany just became germany within the 19th century. Before that time the holy roman empire wasn't much more than a ton of kingdoms, duchys, citystates and what ever with no collective identification as germans, several languages, everyone had his own system and they probably foght more wars with each other than with the rest of europe. And if you consider that even the german reich in 1850 had a Bundestag and some sort of elections and electoral rights for men above 25, but was indeed neither democratic nor a republic it gets even more confusing. How could a foreign content creator possibly see through this when even most germans couldn't explain what happend in the time after charlemange/Karl dem Großen 800 AD and Bismark in 1870 AD. That's 1000 years of historical bullshit bingo in which you may actually find the hanseatic city-states some if which have been republics.
@@Vracka Stop shit-talking the poor HRE. 🙂It was a weird construct. But during most of its centuries before the modern era it was a working entity keeping its territories more or less together. And it lasted for around 1000 years - which is not something you can say about every German reich...
@@Vracka I am not German myself, in regards to your statement about how is a foreign content creator supposed to know, so I don’t know your nationality. I know that it’s very complex and complicated but I was correcting something that he typed out and posted in the video not just something that a non-native speaker said off the cuff. I feel that it would be better to be too vague than to be incorrect. I don’t think that anyone should expect him to know all the minutiae surrounding everything but maybe he shouldn’t dive too deeply into the minutiae.
you should check if your ancestors are really from bavaria or palatine, because they were connected in one state from 1777-1945, interrupted by a french period. old papers might be about ancient bavaria
There was a castle Wirtemberg at 1080, built by a family which probable was close to the Salian dynasty and they got eventually from Graf (Count/Earl), to Kurfürst (prince elector) to König (King).
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As a German I have no larger complaints with the explanations but the order You presented them in, feels kinda wild to me. North to South, big to small, the other way round, but at least "regular" Saxony before the other Saxonies! "Ordnung muss sein!" as we Germans say: "There must be order!" If You are open to a bigger Challenge, take an older version of the German map and try again. Not only are the borders larger, the inbetween is far more subdovided. No double names with dashes but a very interesting patchwork of separate entities.
A Finnish word for scissors are "sakset" and it is always in a plural form. An ancient Germanic tribe Saxons are "saksit" in Finnish, and a German is "saksalainen". Collectively all ancient Germanic tribes are called in Finnish as "germaanit" including "visigootit", "ostrogootit", "vandaalit", "frankit", "alemannit", "langobardit", "anglit", "juutit", etc. Even the Roman Empire couldn't stop them in the end.
My dad has a cousin on his mom’s side who lives in Baden-Wurttember, specifically the town of Balingen. She & her husband visited us in Nebraska (US) around the time of my grandparents’ 50th anniversary in 2000, & we’ve stayed in contact with them since then.
The term "Freistaat" in German means nothing else but "Republic" and was, together with "Volksstaat" (people's state, i.e. "Democracy") widely used in the inter-war period to designate the republican constitutions of the individual member states. Before the revolution of 1918 most German states were monarchies, so they were called principalities, duchies, grandduchies, kingdoms and the like, and only a few were republics, mainly the city states with their hanseatic tradition.
Yes and Bavaria was annexed into it. Everyone after Second World War knew that bavarian hate german and want nothing to do with them but they rather placed them inside Germany so there are different folks inside the republic that both hate each other and nothing goes forward. Some wanted to do the right thing and reinstall Bavaria-Austria but it would’ve been too powerful for some! When Bavaria leaves bankrupt Germany now it will surpass the rest of Germany in 10-20 years.
The state of Sachsen has never been part of the Saxons‘ territory. It’s a bit confusing but in brief: Sachsen (and Sachsen-Anhalt) have nothing to do with the Saxons
Regarding Niedersachsen, the video makes it seem as if the "Lesser" is referring to it as the "lesser" Saxony compared to the much more important Electorate. "Lesser" or better translated as "Lower" refers to geography however. The South of Germany is geographically higher, culminating in the Alps, and is thus the "Ober" ("Upper") to North Germany's "Nieder" ("Lower"). The dialect family of Northern German is called Niederdeutsch ("Low German"), or also Plattdeutsch (literally "Flat German").
And the regular German, Hochdeutsch (high German), comes from the fact that it comes from the geographically higher parts of germany. Pretty funny imo that the explanations for why it's called Hochdeutsch und Plattdeutsch are so simple
There is a city called "Brandenburg an der Havel". In the year 1157 the country Brandenburg was founded by Albrecht the Bear after repossesing the Castle Brandenburg and making it his administrative center. Before that it hat already changed hands a few times between Slavic tribes and German conquerors. The founders of the castle city, then called Brendanburg or Brennaburg, were the Heveller tribe a Slavic tribe that migrated to the banks of the river Havel during the great period of migration centurys before the holy roman empire. The name means Gate(Bren) Castle(Brug), gate-castle or castle of or at the gate
Fun Fact for fantasy fans: In Tolkiens "The Lord of the Rings" the kingdom of Rohan is divided into a Westfold and an Eastfold. It's basically the same as Westfalen (Westphalia). In former times there was an Ostfalen (Eastphalia?), too, but this name isn't used any more. Tolkien used the old Saxons as a model for the Rohirrim, and there language, including the names of these areas.
Stimmt, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, (der Name wird auch noch offiziell genutzt) gibt es heute noch, aber das Gebiet hat nichts mit Ostfalen zutun. Denn der Name Ostwestfalen-Lippe bezeichnet lediglich die Nord-Östliche Region Westfalens. Während der Name Ostfalen für eine Region zwischen Braunschweig, der Lüneburger Heide und Sachsen-Anhalt benutzt wurde, und heute ist der Name Ostfalen tatsächlich nicht mehr so gebräuchlich.
I need to make this very clear: The people from "Saxony" have NOTHING to do with the Saxon tribe. Their descendents are the people from LOWER Saxony. People from saxony have slavic roots.
consider the Saxon tribes moved around a lot and any Slavic influence in the area came in later centuries. besides, the current name for the federal state takes it cue from the kingdom of Saxony and its predecessors.
@@embreis2257 Greetings from Lower Saxony, the Saxon tribe has not moved, but has spread out towards England and Mecklenburg. But not to the southeast. The descendants of Thuringians, Franks and Slavs live there. Only the name "saxony" has moved. In the Middle Ages, there was a dispute between the Emperor and the Duke of Saxony Henry the Lion (House of Welf). He went into exile and his title "Duke of Saxony" was taken away from him. The duchy was divided into several principalities. The emperor gave the title "Duke of Saxony" another noble family. The house of Anhalt. Then House Askania, Wettiner etc Anhalt had counties in Eastfalia. And then, years later, inheritance, marriage, etc., the title went to the Margraviate of Meissen. Slavic people with german migrants. The margraviate thus became the new duchy, later the Kingdom of Saxony.
When you thought I couldn't make another mistake after uploading this with the wrong thumbnail, there it is! It's because when you search for Ibn Jakub, it shows a lot of illustrations of Mieszko due to the first's travels to Poland at the time.
@@General.Knowledge Since we're already in the topic of Poland, I proposed you circa 7 months ago an idea about a video explaining in details how each of interwar Poland's borders was made. So... any chance for that?
Fun Fact. In Holstein we have Ostholstein, East Holstein, coastal area near the Mecklenburgian border. It is also coloquially referred to as Holsteinische Schweiz, Holsteinian Switzerland, as it has the highest elevations in all of Northern Germany. The highest elevation being the Bungsberg with ca. 170 meters above sea level. Compared to the area close to the Northern Sea which are flatlands. So yeah, Holstein meaning Hill dwellers is kinds funny in that sense in comparison to so much land around it.
"The medieval Vikings, who had contacts with the Byzantine Empire through their expansion through eastern Europe (Varangians), used the Old Norse name Mikligarðr (from mikill 'big' and garðr 'wall' or 'stronghold') as seen in the Icelandic sagas" ...this is about Istanbul, but checks out in terms of Mecklenburg. (the meaning slightly differs depending on who you ask)
love your videos but pleasseee, try to correctly pronounce the Umlauts Ä Ö and Ü, a quick Google translate pronunciation check would suffice! But anyways great video!
Hamburg also has the prefix "Frei" still in front of its name. While for the Flächenländer it is Freistaat, for Hamburg it is Freistadt, but it is basically the same.
That is pretty easy. There are four different concepts: 1.We call ourselves "Deutsch" ("belonging to the people"). The Scandinavian "Tyskland" (Germany) is the same. Also the Italian "tedeschi" (Germans) 2. "Germany" ("area of Germanic tribes") is the name given to roughly the same region by the Romans. Some Romance speaking languages use this name too, "Germania". 3. The French call our country "allemagne". It refers to the specific tribe of the Allemanni who seemed to be meaningful enough to be featured in French and Portuguese. In Finnish, we are call Saksa ("Saxons"), so that would be another Germanic tribe. 4. The Slavic neighbouring countries use the concept of (correct me if I am wrong) Niemczy (the mute ones, I believe). It refers to a language barrier between Slavic and Germanic languages (q.e.d....). I think, the Czech last name Nemec also means "German"? I think that's it. Not sure about African, American or East Asian languages though. Arabic, Turkish and Persian call us Alman (probably a French connection)
An interesting fact to add to the Palatinate part of Rhineland Palatinate would be that the Germans once used the term Pfalz (Palatinate) for any castle that was dedicated to host the ever travelling court of the Emperor of the HRE. Those castles and the land around them were given to counts, who governed the region as their fiefdom and had to maintain the Pfalz (Pfalzgrafen / Palatinate counts) and be prepared to host the imperial court whenever the emperor decided to drop by. Although there once were dozends of them, significant differences in power developed, depending on how important the location was and how some Palatinate counts could expand their lands. The most influential and rich of those Palatinate counts, the Pfalzgraf bei Rhein (palatinate count at the Rhine) became one of the seven heriditary members of the the electorate council that elected the emperor (a position made permanet by the Golden Bill of 1356). From that time, the holdings of that one Palatinate count were know as the "Kurpfalz" (= the Electorate Palatinate), which over time colloquially got shortened to just the "Pfalz". So that's how even though their were palatinates all over the HRE, that one region at the river Rhine (in the southern part of today's Rhineland-Palatinate) became associated with the term Palatinate.
Brandenburg is the name of the province Mark Brandenburg, Mark meaning a border province. Every German recognises that the word refers to a burned castle and there is 2 cities carrying the name, Brandenburg and Neubrandenburg. The settlers did not use forests to rule the land but fortifications, so -burg is a major part of city names.
I would have included that "Free State" has aboslutely no meaning. These States aren´t different from the other ones (even though Bavaria often does act like it and is seen like they are something special). The "Lower" in Lower Saxony describes its Elevation, its coastal. Vorpommern doesn´t mean close to Pommern. Its more like the Front Part of Pommern (the other is Hinterpommern then). A Video about the territorial History of german States can be interesting as well. Some have really long Roots (like Bavaria) some developed out of the unification of several States (like Baden-Württemberg, even though with a weird intermediate Step) and some are rather young like RP.
to explain 'freistaat'; there was a german nativism/purity movement which opposed the use of foreign, often latin or french, loanwords, which was quite popular in the 19th and early 20th century. so instead of 'Republik' (eng. republic) they used 'Freistaat', and instead of 'Demokratie' (eng. democracy) they used 'Volksstaat' i mean thats quite a simplified explanation, but its close enough
The south-east of Germany (Baden-Württemberg) is also call ,,Schwaben/Schwabenland "(English=Swabia) and was also one of the 5 Stem-duchy's ,back then in the middle ages.
ther are 3 main theorys for brandenburg 1. Brani boru (like you mentioned) 2. Brennabor (wich also has its orgins in swamp) 3. gebrante burg ...... = brick made fortress as the first fortress was made out of bricks
The interpretation of Brandenburg originating in Brani boru has never been verified and everywhere that it's mentioned, there are no sources and Wikipedia notes it as "Citation required". Aka, bullshit.
Random funfact that came to me due to the confusion: The song country roads take me home was really popular in Germany with people even thinking its Usa's national anthem and its still very popular with german youth singing it on school trips with other songs too like I want it that way and the current Tiktok trend song
As a german myself, thank you :) A lot of new info in this video, mostly the etymology of certain names. I know that term X comes from germanic origins, term Y from slavic ones, but what exactly they mean always eluded me. So again, thank you.
About Hessen: We are not 'descended from the Frankish tribe of the Chatti'. You got something wrong, there. The Chatti moved into the area around 50 BC, as - probably in connection with the Gaulish War of a certain soon to be stabbed to death pontifex maximus - the Celts who previously had lived in that area came under military and economic pressure and dissapeared. Some of them traversed the Rhine and founded Cologne. Their vanishing formed a power vacuum, which was exploited by the Romans in the south and some Germanic speaking wildlings in the north who migrated into the area (at least the part north of the Limes) and took over power and germanized the locals. In this context, its totally understandable that these people were given a maybe celtic, maybe germanic exonym as "Chatti". (The Ch was presumably the romanization of the germanic ch-sound, thats a bit similar to the sound the City of Kharkiv starts with). Still today, we have the verb "hetzen" in German, that can either mean to rush or to hurry or that can have an older, more warlike and probably connected to hunting meaning like in the German word for a Persistence hunting - 'Hetzjagd' or a certain tank hunter from WW2, that was named 'Hetzer'. So, the Chatti were either seen as Hunters (maybe in contrast to farmers and herders) or they were seen as warlike people who hunted their enemies on the battlefield. As they had settled in, they wasted no time and tried the obvious - attacking the Romans, which went not as expected and ended in a Roman punitive expedition, hundreds of burned down villages and a falling into oblivion for a couple of hundred years. Only then they would appear again - this time as a part of the larger Franks, which had formed in an area of modern day Hessen, Nordrhein-Westphalen and Rheinland-Pfalz, mostly around the river Rhine. As the Franks had formed their Empires, they somehow had to administer them - and formed Gaue, districts or counties, if you want. One of them was situated in the area where the Chatti had lived and thus was named Chattengau. And after the Frankish Empire(s) split up into more smaler and smaler dominions, the landgrave of that Hessengau somehow managed to not only keep his power but also somehow expand it further south and over time into what is today Hessen. And as in this time (We are speaking about around 2000 years!) German language changed, also the pronounciation changed. Chatti - hatti - hassi - hessi...
"Pfalz" comes from a place owned by the Emperor to support him before there was a capital and he had to move constantly through his empire. Then the person in charge, a count, became important through the ages and was electoral figure to elect the emperor. So the word transferred to the whole state he ruled, but there are several other "Pfalz" in the former Frankish empire.
9:58 that's crazy cause in Romanian pă mare means on the sea or at the sea. See that little symbol on too of the a? It means that's not an a but a different vowel with a pronounciation somewhere between a and o, so really, it's pronounced almost the same. Thing is, Romanian is a Romance language, not a slavic one, so these words being the same is awesome. The romanian word mare comes from Latin mare and is pronounced the same as in Latin, so the fact that in Slavic more means sea is fascinating. Also, the O in slavic is often pronounced almost like an A for reasons i don't know, so chances are the native term could have sounded way more similar to pă mare.
What a pleasure to learn so much about my country's etymology, that being said, I'm also amused that as a Hesse, my origins remain unknown :D That being said, I have to declare that dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, wo sind meine Landsmänner und -frauen?
Im from Mecklenburg and I’m quit amazed by what I could learn here I know all the German federal states and their capitol (it’s mandatory for geography) but this is way interesting I just know the meaning of some state names like the one I live in and some others but having this overview is really nice That’s for the video
I've learned that 'Pfalz' refers to a province the Emperor has under direct control. Like You are the Emperor and devide your land among your vassals as fiefdoms - who in turn can lend out some of their land to vassals lower on the hierarchy and so on. But if there's an especially juicy bit of land or something dear to your heart, you might want to control and hold it yourself - and that's called 'Pfalz'. As said - I learned it that way, might be wrong.
You mention correctly that the name of mighty Rhine River, derives from the Gaulish/latin but has also a Greek root from the word rhéō , that means to flow.
3:51 Grmbl! Why stop here? The origin of the word come from the peripatetic habits of the early Frankish/ German kings, who did not have capital per se but a mobile court that reloacted periodically from one Königspfalz, meaning royal palace, royal residence, to the next. Often these residences were not even the property of the king but had to be provided by the territorial prince, including the provisioning. Hosting the royal court put a strain on the ressources of the principality so inflicted, which severely curtailed any shenannigns a local prince might be up to. This was actually a political instrument of the Dynasty of Charlemagne, Otto and Heinrich.
No, Sachsen (Saxony) and Thüringen (Thuringia) adopted the name "free state" past 1990, Bavaria got it in 1949. It does not have a certain meaning beyond a symbol. Bavaria and Saxony have been kingdoms before 1871. The last "Freistaat" was Danzig between 1918 and 1939. Then the meaning was that they are forced to be independent from the German Empire.
I believe the Baiovarii were originally located in Bohemia, but moved out during the migration era after which Slavic Czechs moved in to replace them. The Boii gave the name to the region of Bohemia, but by the time this migration happened there were almost no celts left there.
As a german speaker, I want to critique your pronunciation of ä, ö and ü, as they're not the same as a, o and u, yet you're pronouncing them like their counterparts. It's not a huge problem, but it's still heavily incorrect, as words differ if they have Umlaute (the two dots on top) or not, for example: Schwül | Schwul, one meaning humid, the other meaning gay.
The boii was not a celtic tribe, it was a mixed celtic/germanian/slawic/raetoromanian tribe With pfalz/palatine you can also go a little deeper. The region is named after the official deputy of the German king. When the german King was outside Germany or died he was the deputy and at the same time one of the 7 electors who elected the king. Btw 3 of 7 electors owned big areas in Rhinelan-Palatine. Origin of Hesse came from germanic tribe Chatten. some say it may had been a germanian tribe with some celtic influences. Nordrhein-Westphalen: Nordrhein, means northern part of the Rhineland Brandenburg: Burg=Castle. There was a castle called Brandenburg (Brennaburg or Brennaburg) a slawic castle from the 8th-12th century. Vorpommern: vor doesn't mean close. Originally pommern was one area. In 1945 it was divided into two parts, sepertated by the river Oder, Vorpommern and Hinterpommern. Vor=in the Front. Hinter=in the Back. The perspective is seen from the west. Hinterpommern is today in Poland.
What tribe isn't mixed? The Boii had a Celtic origin, language and a history. There we're Boii, when no Germanic people we're around. And as a Sidenote: "Boii" is more of a prestigous name, not an ethnonym in the modern sense. There are "Boii" all over Western/Central Europe - cattle herding celts. Another exemple of such a prestigous name are the Avars. Multiple groups have the same name.
