what is the difference between northwestern europe and germanic europe?
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The England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe category is largely for people who have ancestry in England, Wales, and some parts of Northwestern Europe (northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands especially). Germanic Europe is a category which centers DNA from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
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North, South, East, and West are English words, derived from Germanic, which was itself derived from Proto-Indo-European. (Many English words are.) These Germanic words eventually replaced their Greek-Latin counterparts in most of Western Europe.
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Geographically speaking, Finland and Iceland are not a part of the Scandinavian peninsula, and therefore not truly Scandinavian countries. To fix the divide, the French stepped in to diplomatically smooth out the terminology by dubbing Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Nordic countries.
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Norwegian refer to people and things relating to the country of Norway. “Norse” is the language that people spoke living in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and the Faroe islands. “Nordic” is related to the countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Greenland and the Faroe islands.
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The Netherlands is located in Northwestern Europe. The country shares a border with Germany in the East and Belgium in the South. The West and North are the Dutch coast and are delimited by the North Sea.
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The Celts migrated earlier than the Germanic peoples (Norse being a subset of Germanic). After the Germanic people came the Slavic people and so on. They're all Indo-European, but you will find that the Norse have much more in common with the Teutons, Anglos, Saxons, Goths, Etc.
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In Northern Europe, it's much colder than Southern Europe. They all speak different languages, and have different cultures. Northern countries are mostly more industrialized than Southern countries. Southern countries depend a lot on warm weather tourism industry.
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The Norman Conquest in 1066 marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. The groups of people who came from mainland Europe to live in Britain in the 5th century. The first group came from tribes in northern Germany and southern Denmark.
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Whereas new is a Germanic word coming from Old English, novel is based on Latin novellus "new, young, fresh." If something is novel, it is new but also original, fresh and unique. ...
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Germans and Celts are entirely different people. They had (still have) different languages, customs, costumes, mythology, gods, they build their settlements differently etc... But their artefacts are very similar. Archeologists have troubles to distinguished them properly, sometimes.
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what is the difference between Roman society and Germanic communities concerning the concept of government? Loyalty to public government and written law had unified Roman society. Family ties and personal loyalty, rather than citizenship in a public state, held Germanic society together.
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In Scandinavia, fjord is used for a narrow inlet of the sea in Norway, Denmark and western Sweden, but this is not its only application. In Norway and Iceland, the usage is closest to the Old Norse, with fjord used for both a firth and for a long, narrow inlet.
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No. Germans are Germanic. Germanic and Celtic people both stem from a common theoretized group that is linguistically identified as “Indo-European”, though we know precious little about them. The confusion may stem from the Nazi idea that Germans should be Nordic.
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Scandinavia, historically Scandia, part of northern Europe, generally held to consist of the two countries of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Norway and Sweden, with the addition of Denmark.
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They are of course mutually intelligible and can sound more like dialects than different languages. Some northern Swedish dialects can sometimes sound Norwegian. A key difference is how the words are pronounced. Norwegian is more happy sounding and usually goes up in pitch on the last word.
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What were three differences between Russia and Western Europe? Three differences between Russia and Western Europe were; Russia's continued use of boyars and serfs, Russia's reliance on Constantinople instead of Rome, and the religious beliefs. What was Peter the Great's primary goal for Russia?
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The Anglo-Saxons were worse than the Vikings. The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. ... That title goes to the Anglo-Saxons, 400 years earlier. The Anglo-Saxons came from Jutland in Denmark, Northern Germany, the Netherlands, and Friesland, and subjugated the Romanized Britons.