Germania was the Roman term for the historical region in north-central Europe initially inhabited mainly by Germanic tribes.

Germania may also refer to:

Arts and culture

  • Germania (band), a project of the Slovenian group Laibach
  • Germania (book), a historical and ethnographic work by Tacitus
  • a book on German culture by Simon Winder
  • Germania (guild), artisan guilds in the Kingdom of Valencia in Spain
  • Germania (opera), a 1902 opera by Alberto Franchetti
  • Germania (personification), a figure representing the German nation or the Germans as whole
  • Germania (Philipp Veit), an alegorical painting made by Veit in 1834–1836
  • Germania (St. Paul's), another allegorical painting made in 1848, possibly also by Veit, located at St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt
  • Germania (stamp), a definitive stamp design from 1900–1922 in Germany
  • "Germania" (Beethoven), patriotic song by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Germania (German-American culture), aspects of German American culture

Places

Antiquity

  • Germania Antiqua, an abandoned province of the Roman Empire in Europe
  • Germania Superior, a province of the Roman Empire in Europe
  • Germania Inferior, a province of the Roman Empire in Europe
  • Germania in Dacia, a Roman town, current-day Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria
  • Germania in Numidia, an ancient city and Roman bishopric, in current-day Algeria

Modern

United States

  • Germania, Michigan
  • Germania Township, Todd County, Minnesota
  • Germania, Missouri
  • Germania, New Jersey
  • Germania, Texas
  • Germania, Wisconsin
  • Germania, Iron County, Wisconsin
  • Germania, Marquette County, Wisconsin
  • Germania, Wyoming

Elsewhere

  • Germania (city), also known as Welthauptstadt Germania, the projected renewal of Berlin, Germany during the Nazi period
  • Germania, Ontario, Canada
  • Germania District, Siquirres Canton, Costa Rica
  • Germania Land, Greenland
  • Germania, Djursholm, Sweden
  • Germania, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sports

German football clubs

  • BFC Germania 1888, from Berlin
  • Germania Bieber
  • Germania Bietigheim (disambiguation)
  • Germania Bochum, defunct
  • SC Germania 1899 Bremen, defunct
  • Germania Breslau, defunct
  • Germania Brötzingen
  • 1. FC Germania Egestorf/Langreder
  • VfL Germania 1894, from Frankfurt am Main
  • FC Germania Friedrichstal
  • VfB Germania Halberstadt
  • Germania Kattowitz, defunct
  • Mannheimer FG Germania 1897, defunct
  • FC Germania 1899 Mühlhausen, now SV 1899 Mühlhausen
  • 1. FC Germania 08 Ober-Roden
  • DFC Germania Prag, defunct
  • SV Germania Schöneiche
  • FC Germania 06 Schwanheim
  • Germania Teveren
  • SG Germania Wiesbaden
  • TSV Germania Windeck

Other uses in sports

  • FC Germania Helsinki, a sports club in Finland
  • SC Germânia, now Esporte Clube Pinheiros, in São Paulo, Brazil
  • SC Germania List, a German rugby union club
  • Germania F.V., a defunct Mexican football club
  • Germania Königshütte, a former German football club, now Polish club AKS Chorzów

Transportation

  • Germania (ship), 1869–1891
  • Germania (yacht), 1908–1930
  • , a number of steamships with this name
  • , a German trawler in service 1934–39 and as the vorpostenboot V 403 Germania and V 410 Germania 1939–44
  • Germania (airline), a defunct German airline
  • Germania Flug, now Chair Airlines, a Swiss airline

People

  • Germania Poleo (born 1994), Venezuelan journalist

Other uses

  • Germanía, the argot used by criminals or in jails in Spain during 15th and 16th centuries
  • Germania Flugzeugwerke, a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I
  • Germania C.I
  • Germania C.IV
  • Germanium dioxide or Germania, an inorganic compound
  • Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft (or Germaniawerft, 'Germania shipyard'), a former German shipbuilding company
  • 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking", originally SS-Division Germania
  • 241 Germania, a main-belt asteroid

See also

  • Germania Building (disambiguation)
  • Germanic (disambiguation)
  • Germany (disambiguation)
  • Germanicopolis (disambiguation)
  • Germanicia, now Kahramanmaraş in Turkey
  • Germaniciana, now in Tunisia
  • Germanium, a chemical element