Encyclopedia - German: Encyclopedia - German
German has several meanings: German - Germany-related. anything related to the land of Germany and its people the German language Germ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - German Colonisation In Brazil
During the 19th century, German immigrants in Brazil settled mostly in rural areas, named colony (colônia in Portuguese). These colonies...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Etymology Of German
Germani is thought to be the Celtic name for the Germanic tribes: the tribes themselves never used the word. There is also a Latin adject...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alemannic German: Encyclopedia - Alemannic German
Alemannic German (Alemannisch) is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family. It is spoken by approxi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cockroach: Encyclopedia - German Cockroach
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is a small species of cockroach, measuring about 1/2" to 5/8" (1.3 cm to 1.6 cm) long. It is t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia - West Germanic Languages
West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as German, English and Dutch. The other...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Confederations Of Germanic Tribes: Encyclopedia - Confederations Of Germanic Tribes
The following are some historical Germanic Confederations 230 BC - Bastarnae, a mixture of Germanic tribes, at the Black Sea; they parti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism
Reconstructions of the traditions of Germanic paganism began with 19th century Romanticism. From the 1960s, various Neopagan movements ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Urban Germans In Brazil
In the early 20th century, very few rural areas of Southern Brazil were desert. Most of them had been settled by German, Italian and Poli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carpathian Germans: Encyclopedia - Carpathian Germans
Carpathian Germans (German: Karpatendeutsche, Slovak: karpatskí Nemci), sometimes simply called Slovak Germans (German: Slowakeideutsche...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - German Colonisation In Brazil
During the 19th century, German immigrants in Brazil settled mostly in rural areas, named colony (colônia in Portuguese). These colonies...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Urban Germans In Brazil
In the early 20th century, very few rural areas of Southern Brazil were desert. Most of them had been settled by German, Italian and Poli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - First German Americans
German immigrants made up a substantial population of colonial Pennsylvania, where they often came into political conflict with the Quake...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Standard German
In German linguistics, only the traditional regional varieties are called dialects, not the different varieties of standard German. Stand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - German-american Influence
Germans have contributed to a vast number of areas in American culture and technology. Baron von Steuben, a former Prussian officer, led ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Language
Most German-Brazilians speak only Portuguese nowadays. This is mainly due to the prohibition of German teaching in schools and the public...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Language
Most German-Brazilians speak only Portuguese nowadays. This is mainly due to the prohibition of German teaching in schools and the public...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - Germans - Ethnic Nationalism
The reaction evoked in the decades after the Napoleonic Wars was a strong ethnic nationalism that emphasized, and sometimes overemphasize...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Immigration
When Germanic immigrants first arrived in Brazil starting at the beginning of the 1800's they did not identify themselves so much as a u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Verb: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Verb - Types Of Verbs In Germanic
The Germanic verb system carried two innovations over the previous Indo-European verb system: Simplification to two tenses: present (als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - First German Americans
German immigrants made up a substantial population of colonial Pennsylvania, where they often came into political conflict with the Quake...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - Germans - Conclusion
Historical persons like Kafka might be called Germans, or might not. Some would hold that they belong to the German culture, which is wha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - Pronunciation
Swiss German - Consonants. Like in all Southern German dialects, Swiss German dialects have no voiced obstruents. Instead, there is a l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - Germans - Minorities
In recent years, the German-speaking countries of Europe have been confronted with demographic changes due to decades of immigration. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Austrian German: Encyclopedia Ii - Austrian German - Standard German In Austria
With German being a pluricentric language, Austrian dialects should not be confused with the variety of Standard German spoken by most Au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - History
As Alemannic dialects, Swiss German dialects did not participate in the second German vowel shift during medieval times - they use mostly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Immigration
When Germanic immigrants first arrived in Brazil starting at the beginning of the 1800's they did not identify themselves so much as a u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - German-american Influence
Germans have contributed to a vast number of areas in American culture and technology. Baron von Steuben, a former Prussian officer, led ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Low German: Encyclopedia Ii - Low German - History
Old Saxon was the ancestor of the Low Saxon varieties of Low German, recorded from about 800 to 1100. Middle Low German was the ancestor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Dialects
The term "German" is used for the dialects of Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland (that is, outside the French-, Italian-, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - History
Germanic peoples - Origin. Regarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguists suggests t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Low German: Encyclopedia Ii - Low German - Trivia
The Low German greeting formula Moin and its duplication MoinMoin gave the name for the WikiWiki MoinMoin Project http://moin.sourceforge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Grammar
Main article: German grammar German is an inflected language. German language - Noun inflection. German nouns inflect into: one of fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Low German: Encyclopedia Ii - Low German - Grammar
The grammar also shows similarities to the English language. Low German declination has only three cases. Low German - Verbs. In Low Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Wine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Wine - German Wines
The wines have historically been predominately white, and the finest made from riesling. Many wines have been sweet and low in alcohol, l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baltic German: Encyclopedia Ii - Baltic German - History
Baltic German - Middle Ages. Ethnic proto-Germans began to settle in the Baltic region in the 12th century when traders and missionarie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - Writing
Swiss German dialects are usually not written, but only spoken. All formal writing, newspapers, books and much of informal writing is don...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Proto-germanic Religion
Germanic paganism seems to have begun developing sometime during the 2nd millennium BC, during the Nordic Bronze Age, with influences fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - Use
Unlike most dialects in modern Europe, Swiss German is the spoken everyday language of all social levels in industrial cities as well as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - History
As a consequence of the colonisation patterns the Völkerwanderung, the routes for trade and communication (chiefly the rivers), and of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bernese German: Encyclopedia Ii - Bernese German - Varieties
There is a lot of regional variation within Bernese German. Native people can tell from which village one comes only by hearing the diale...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bernese German: Encyclopedia Ii - Bernese German - Phonology
main article: Bernese German phonology Bernese German is distinguished from other Swiss German dialects by the following characteristics:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - History
The history of the German language begins with the High German consonant shift during the Migration period, separating South Germanic dia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - Vocabulary
The vocabulary is rather rich - especially in rural areas there are many special terms retained, e.g. regarding cattle or weather. In the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alemannic German: Encyclopedia Ii - Alemannic German - Variants
Alemannic itself comprises a dialect continuum, from the Highest Alemannic spoken in the mountainous south to Swabian in the relatively f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Paganism - Sources
Most sources documenting Germanic paganism have been lost and it is only from Iceland that there is a substantial literature, namely the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Wine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Wine - Grapes
These are listed roughly in order of importance, although this varies significantly by region. German wine - White wine grapes. Princip...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Mediatisation: Encyclopedia Ii - German Mediatisation - Background
The German Mediatisation is a name applied to the series of mediatisations and secularisations which occurred in Germany during the Napol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - German Phonology - Consonants
The voiceless stops /t/, /p/, /k/ are aspirated except when preceded by a sibiliant. The obstruents /b d g z ʒ/ are voiceless [b̥ d̥ g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Name And Location
Deutschbrasilianer (in German), teuto-brasileiro or germano-brasileiro (in Portuguese), or German-Brazilian (in English) basically is a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Idealism: Encyclopedia Ii - German Idealism - Conclusion
Spinoza had a great influence on post-Kantian German Idealists. Schopenhauer wrote: "In consequence of Kant's criticism of all speculativ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - History
The first modern attempt at revival of ancient Germanic religion took place in the 19th Century during the late Romantic Period amidst a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Wine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Wine - Regions
There are 13 regions where wine is grown in Germany: 1. Ahr 2. Baden 3. Franken 4. Hessische Bergstrasse 5. Mittelrhein 6. Mosel-Saar-Ru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Declension
Every German noun is assigned one of three genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. Unlike English, which does not assign a gender to most...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baltic German: Encyclopedia Ii - Baltic German - Territories
In Baltic German settlement patterns, the Baltic area consisted of the following territories: Estland (Latin: Estonia), roughly the nort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viennese German: Encyclopedia Ii - Viennese German - Vocabulary
The Viennese vocabulary displays particular characteristics. Viennese retains many Middle High German and sometimes even Old High German ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Idealism: Encyclopedia Ii - German Idealism - Reinhold
Karl L. Reinhold published two volumes of Letters Concerning the Kantian Philosophy in 1790 and 1792. They provided a clear explication o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Idealism: Encyclopedia Ii - German Idealism - Fichte
After Schulze had seriously criticized the notion of a thing-in-itself, Fichte (1762 - 1814) produced a philosophy similar to Kant's, but...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Idealism: Encyclopedia Ii - German Idealism - Schelling
With regard to the experience of objects, Schelling (1775 - 1854) claimed that the ideas or mental images in the mind are identical to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - German Americans Throughout The Country
Germans trickled in to major US cities in response to the Industrial Revolution, and the demand for cheap immigrant labor made the US an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Germans - Politicians
List of Germans - Chancellors of Germany before 2nd World War. Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), chancellor and statesman of the Weimar ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Nouns
A German noun has one of three specific grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and belongs to one of three declensions. These ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Verbs
German verbs may be classified as either weak, with a dental consonant inflection, or strong, showing a vowel gradation (ablaut). Both of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German-brazilian: Encyclopedia Ii - German-brazilian - Name And Location
Deutschbrasilianer (in German), teuto-brasileiro or germano-brasileiro (in Portuguese), or German-Brazilian (in English) basically is a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alemannic German: Encyclopedia Ii - Alemannic German - Variety Of German Or Independent Language?
For speakers of standard German, Alemanic can be very difficult to understand, particularly the southernmost dialects. Therefore, some li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Adjectives
For the inflection of adjectives, the case, number and gender of the nominal phrase must be considered along with the article of the noun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - German Americans And World War Ii
114,000 Germans came to the United States between 1931 and 1940, many of whom were anti-Nazis fleeing government oppression. [5] About 25...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - History
All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Terminology
Germanic neopaganism - Ásatrú. Ásatrú is an Old Norse compound derived from Ása, the genitive of Áss, which refers to the Aesir, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Factions
Besides the Norse/Germanic mythology at its core, Heathenry has regional varieties of emphasis, often from the subjective interpretations...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Neopaganism - Tenets
Germanic Neopagan organizations generally favor democratic and republican forms of church government, as inspired by the parliamentary Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic King: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic King - Etymology
The name king is derived from the Anglo-Saxon cyning, which in turn is derived from the Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The original meaning is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Mediatisation: Encyclopedia Ii - German Mediatisation - Mediatisation
Although the number of German states had been steadily decreasing since the Thirty Years' War, there still remained approximately 200 sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germans: Encyclopedia Ii - Germans - History
The Germans are a Germanic people. Ethnographers hypothesize that all Germanic speakers originally came from Scandinavia, which includes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German American: Encyclopedia Ii - German American - German Americans Assimilation And World War I
After two or three generations in America the Germans assimilated to American customs--some of which they heavily influenced--and switche...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Fish
Trout is the most common freshwater fish on German menus, although pike, carp, and perch are also frequently served. Seafood was traditio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Desserts
A wide variety of cakes and pies are prepared throughout the country, most commonly made with fresh fruit. Apples, plums, strawberries, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Bread
With regard to bread, German cuisine is more akin to Eastern than to Western Europe. The country boasts at least 300 different types of b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Classification
Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects bei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Desserts
A wide variety of cakes and tarts are prepared throughout the country, most commonly made with fresh fruit. Apples, plums, strawberries, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Bread
With regard to bread, German cuisine is more akin to Eastern than to Western Europe. The country boasts at least 300 different types of b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Fish
Trout is the most common freshwater fish on German menus, although pike, carp, and perch are also frequently served. Seafood was traditio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Mediatisation: Encyclopedia Ii - German Mediatisation - Secularisation
From the reestablishment of the Holy Roman Empire by the Salian and Saxon Emperors in the 10th and 11th Centuries, the Feudal system had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Army: Encyclopedia Ii - German Army - History
German Army - Pre 1914. Following the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo the Prussian Kingdom had years of military successes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Idealism: Encyclopedia Ii - German Idealism - Background
Kant (1724 - 1804) is sometimes considered the first of the German idealists. Kant's work purported to bridge the two dominant philosophi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Meat
Pork, beef and poultry are the main varieties of meat consumed in Germany, with pork being the most popular by a substantial margin. Amon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Drinks
Beer is very common throughout all parts of Germany. In most of the country Pils is predominant nowadays, whereas people in the South (es...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Language: Encyclopedia Ii - German Language - Names Of The German Language In Other Languages
Because of the turbulent history of both Germany and the German language, the names that other peoples have chosen to use to refer to it ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Drinks
Beer is very common throughout all parts of Germany, with many local and regional breweries producing a wide variety of beers. In most of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - German Cuisine - Meat
Pork, beef and poultry are the main varieties of meat consumed in Germany, with pork being the most popular by a substantial margin. Amon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Writing
Our earliest evidence of Germanic is from names, recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus, and in a single instance in the 2nd century BC, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Mark: Encyclopedia Ii - German Mark - History
A mark had been the currency of Germany since its original unification in 1871. Before that time, the different German states issued a va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Colonial Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - German Colonial Empire - German Colonies
Formal German sovereignty existed in (German names in italics): Pacific Ocean Western Samoa: 1899 – 1914 The Caroline Islands (Karoli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swiss German: Encyclopedia Ii - Swiss German - Variation And Distribution
Swiss German is a regional, or political, umbrella term, not a linguistic unity. For all dialects, there are idioms spoken outside Switze...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - History
Germanic peoples - Origin. Regarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguists suggests t...   » Read the article