#FUN LINGUISTIC + GEOGRAPHICAL + HISTORICAL FACT YIPPIEEEEEEEEE
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its actually because of mistranslations 
and latinization
"osterreich" is the german name
old high german to be exact
latinization occurs everywhere in the english language
for example
estonia
latinization was common during the roman empires time
translating names into latin or greek happened a lot
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similarly alexander the great is a common example of translations
the name sikander, iskander al-iksander
arabic
etc
oh scander too
middle easterns sometimes mistranslated or thought alexanders name was smth else
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