Czechia (new word!!!)

[Beverly Flanigan]

I heard the name when I was in Prague in Summer 2000--sounded sensible and
natural to me too.

At 05:22 PM 1/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
>"Czechia" was being used in the media and on the Internet in 1992 or so,
>certainly ... sometimes = Bohemia, sometimes = Bohemia + Moravia, or
>Czechoslovakia - Slovakia. One Web site claims that the name was made
>official by the Czech government in 1993. Seems natural to me.
>
>-- Doug Wilson


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