Re: Liking German

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> John Cowan wrote:
> >Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> >
> > > Also, is "Czechia" or similar acceptable in English? I'm really
> tired of
> > > "Czech Republic" ... or should one perhaps start saying "Bohemia
> and
> > > Moravia"? :-)
> >
> >I think "Czechia" /tSEkiya/ would be understood, but it is certainly
> >not conventional.  We also have the two distinct countries "Dominica"
> >and "the Dominican Republic".
>
> I'll better start making it conventional then ... sigh. Where there an
> English name for the place before the creation of Czechoslovakia, or was
> it simply "Bohemia" (Moravia afterall being part of the Kingdom of
> Bohemia)?
Before "Czechoslavakia" existed, the regions in question were
part of the Habsburg Empire, the Austrian Empire, and then the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.  They were only regions, and were
referred to as distinct units.

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