alt Hacker Newsno, that's not true. The nation of Germany might not have existed, but the ethnic groups who would later define Germany very much did.
no, that's not true. The nation of Germany might not have existed, but the ethnic groups who would later define Germany very much did.
Your argument is that a group of independent states spanning a huge part of a continent that banded together into a country in the 1800s forms a country that is also an ethnicity, but that a group of independent states spanning a huge part of a continent that banded together even longer ago is not a country that is also an ethnicity?