>>8001776That is incorrect, that is not why we call them that, it's because we had contact with them in the Middle Ages, so we used old Latin maps and records to source their names despite them having different ones at them time, and even though we spoke to them and read their new names in the communication between us - we actively chose not to simply anglicise their name, but to take them from an entirely different language family.
Places that we received contact with more recently we took the modern names. Byzantium (also not a name they used for themselves - they just called themselves the Roman Empire, we took that name from the Ancient Greek colony that existed where Constantinople was) and it's capital Constantinople we knew of far back and we slightly anglicised 'Kōnstantinoupolis'; but how the fuck do you think we got Germany from Deutschland? Do they even sound remotely alike? No, because one comes from the Germanic and the other the Latin. Bohemia was what Rome named the area from the Germanic Boii tribe that occupied it, and thus recorded it on their maps and records.
České království(Czech)
Königreich Böhmen(German)
Regnum Bohemiae(Latin)
Notice how both the Germans and the English took the Latin records to refer to the place, despite the medieval Germans being right fucking next to the medieval Czechs, they took what they considered the more austere and intellectual Latin name to refer to the place.
Do the Greeks call themselves 'Greek'? Also no, they call themselves 'Hellenes', does Greece and Hellas sound alike? No. Graecia is the Roman name for Hellas, which in the countries descended from the Latin Roman Western Empire we recovered their old records/still had them, and followed the Catholic Church that still spoke in Latin.
We haven't changed it for Greece and Germany, so I am not changing it for Constantinople and Bohemia either, I continue to respect the old language more.
Suck my dick, he who knows no fucking history.
