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Nope. It's a certificate Google only gives, if you meet conditions like Chrome, Maps, Youtube as main apps and some app shortcuts on launcher. Which in turn allows to install Play Store and to call it Android.
The same thing is AOSP, which vendors and LineageOS & co. build their ROM from.
what you speak of is certified android. but a vendor can sell android phones (not certified) without google services, and that is android.
Nope, they can't call it Android then. Hard to google nowadays but there were legal cases in the past, i think with Amazon too? And Google got in trouble with the EU, because they got too far and required for the cert that no devices by the same vendor are allowed other operating systems.