[Autobot_Goldbug]

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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

The phonetics aren't evenly roughly close to what a Germanic name would have. German names has a lot of heavy vowell sounds (Austria, Deatchland, Brandenburg Tol) whereas eastern european names have more consonants in them and not so many thick, heavy vowells and hard 's' sounds... plus, there's the fact that the letter v is pronounced as f in German, so it would be pronounced 'Lotferria' if it were Germanic. In the comics, it's usually depicted being in a region resembling the Carpathian mountains, which is in Eastern Europe, not necessarily very German.

It could have been spelled different in German... Latweria
Latveria very well could have been in the Austro-Hungarian Empire according to that map. There were many Germans in that area. Coincidentally I would have Latverian ancestors then.

I'm using Retaliation G.I. Joe Troopers as Latverian Troops.