Is Czechia the official name, or are both Czech Republic and Czechia acceptable?
I always thought they should be called Czechovia. Why not partially include those Moravians in the title a bit.
Because then you'd be excluding the Silesians and Czechs is the term for all the local people: Bohemians, Moravians, and Silesians.
Though, given the history, language, and ethnic composition of the place we could also refer to them as Pseudo-German Slavs. ? Though that ,ight not go over well with most of the locals....it just fits my family history well.
And given that it's really one continuum of ethnolinguistics from Aš to Michalovce (or even Uzhhorod), some of us still refer to anyone born before 1993 as Czechoslovakian and even just consider all the Czechs and Slovaks to be one people. By the way, this is no excuse for people referring to the place as Czechoslovakia in ignorant fashion as is all too common. Or maybe it is.
The two countries are still really close. Familial, cultural, linguistic, educational, etc ties bind deep. My Czech and Slovak friends all consider it to be the same country anyway, all of us being dual Canadian-EU citizens.
Anyway, Czechia is just easier and ties us closer to Slovakia in another way.
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