Name of the Czech Republic (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The name of the Czech Republic remains a source of debate and contention, both at home and abroad. The English spelling Czech derives from the Polish spelling of the original ech. More than a decade after the split of Czechoslovakia into Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the latter continues to be known by several competing names in English and Czech. While "Czech Republic" (Czech: eska republika) is the unquestioned long-form name, Czech geographers have had difficulty convincing people to use the geographic short forms of English "Czechia" / t ki. / and in Czech esko.