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Originally Posted by bluejays
Didn't watch the game but when did Czech Republic be known as Czechia? I haven't heard the reference before.
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The Czech government officials wanted to have a shorter English name for their country after it became independent and separated from Slovakia. They wanted something that resembles France, which is the shorter version of the official name, the French Republic.
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Any Czechs I've talked to absolutely hate the name change, especially just to make it easier when literally no one had trouble with it before.