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The native German-speaking regions in 1930, within the borders of the current Czech Republic, which in the interwar period were referred to as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland (/ s uː ˈ d eɪ t ən l æ n d / ⓘ soo-DAY-tən-land, German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety) is a German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were ...
In elections held on 4 December 1938, 97.32% of the adult population in Sudetenland voted for the NSDAP (most of the rest were Czechs who were allowed to vote as well). About half a million Sudeten Germans joined the Nazi Party, which amounted to 17.34% of the German population in the Sudetenland (the average in Nazi Germany was 7.85%).
The Province of the Sudetenland (German: Provinz Sudetenland) was established on 29 October 1918 by former members of the Cisleithanian Imperial Council, the governing legislature of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Ptolemy wrote "Σούδητα" in Greek, which is a neuter plural. Latin mons, however, is a masculine, hence Sudeti. The Latin version, and the modern geographical identification, is likely to be a scholastic innovation, as it is not attested in classical Latin literature. The meaning of the name is not known.
Sudeten Germans, German-speakers from Sudetenland Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
The Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek [1] (Greek: Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής) is a monolingual dictionary of Modern Greek published by the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation) [2] (named after Manolis Triantafyllidis), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998.
Eros is “the most common depiction of love in Greek,” says Beaulieu. It refers to passionate, romantic, sexual love between any two individuals, Cohen adds.
Silesia (Śląsk) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)The names of Silesia in different languages most likely share their etymology—Polish: Śląsk ⓘ; German: Schlesien [ˈʃleːzi̯ən] ⓘ; Czech: Slezsko; Lower Silesian: Schläsing; Silesian: Ślōnsk; Lower Sorbian: Šlazyńska [ˈʃlazɨnʲska]; Upper Sorbian ...