Other Languages
The renaming of the country in 1918 and 1993 occurred also in the majority of other languages, with only a few (Polish Czechy, Hungarian Csehország, Slovene Češka, etc.) retaining the form used previously. Unlike English, many of those aforementioned languages successfully adopted also the new short-forms like Tschechien in German, Чехия (Chekhiya) in Russian and Bulgarian, Τσεχία (Tsechia) in Greek, Češka in Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian and Slovene, Cehia in Romanian, Tsjekkia in Norwegian, Tjeckien in Swedish, Tjekkiet in Danish, Tsjechië in Dutch or Çeki in Albanian. The Italian Cechia and the French Tchéquie are rarely used, while the Spanish Chequia is more common.
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