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[BazaJT]

Possibly one for Lizzie this,of course others might know the answer too!We have been given a framed map of the East coast region on which the North Sea is marked as the German Ocean.So when did the German Ocean become the North Sea?Also whilst on the subject why the name change?

[The Sheriff]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_North_Sea

[Varche]

Interesting but unhelpful wiki german ocean entry. What language/dialect is that?

I love old maps. When we were kids we were giving very old OS maps of the area and found alsorts like old fishponds, brick ponds and rabbit types that few people knew about.

German Ocean is new one on me!

[powerslinky]

Around the time of the first world war I seem to remember from school   

But school was a long time ago 

Edit:  just looked at STMO's link  . . .   

[PhilRich]

Quote from Wikipedia:.......In classical times this body of water was also called the Oceanum Germanicum or Mare Germanicum, meaning German Ocean or Sea. This name was commonly used in English and other languages along with the name North Sea, until the early eighteenth century. By the late nineteenth century, German Sea was a rare, scholarly usage even in Germany. In Danish the North Sea is also named Vesterhavet (besides Nordsøen), meaning Western Ocean because it is west of Denmark.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Quote from Wikipedia:.......In classical times this body of water was also called the Oceanum Germanicum or Mare Germanicum, meaning German Ocean or Sea. This name was commonly used in English and other languages along with the name North Sea, until the early eighteenth century. By the late nineteenth century, German Sea was a rare, scholarly usage even in Germany. In Danish the North Sea is also named Vesterhavet (besides Nordsøen), meaning Western Ocean because it is west of Denmark.

Yep, and we must not forget that the Southern section of what would be the German Ocean/North Sea was until the end of the last Ice Age, about 6,500 BC, was in fact a large strip of land called the Doggerland which connected Britain with Europe and was occupied by a number of tribes until it all gradually flooded, becoming all sea in about 6,200 BC