<P> Shortly before the disintegration of the Austro - Hungarian empire and the proclamation of the new Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918, there were proposals to use the traditional name Bohemia for the newly formed state . Out of consideration for Slovak national aspiration however, the new name "Czecho - Slovakia" (later "Czechoslovakia") was adopted instead . </P> <P> In accordance with Resolution No. 4 I. of the UN conference on the standardization of geographic names (Geneva 1967) and Resolution No. 2 III. of the UN conference on the standardization of geographic names (Athens 1977), the Terminological Committee of the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping, and Cadaster in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs standardized Czechia as the English translation of Česko in early 1993 . Based on this standardization, the Czech Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education, Youth and Sports recommended the use of the name Czechia . Other names suggested in the 1990s included Czechomoravia or Czechlands . However, by 2000 a short name had still not been fully adopted by Czech authorities . At that time, the British secretary for press and politics, Giles Portman, showed a willingness to accept the name Czechia . Portman said in 2000, "Czechs still use the name Česká republika rather than Česko, and the English equivalent, the Czech Republic, rather than Czechia . Were that pattern to change, we would have no problem at all with adapting accordingly . But we feel that the initiative for that change must come from the Czech side and not from us ." </P> <P> In 2013, Czech president Miloš Zeman recommended the wider official use of Czechia, and on 14 April 2016, the government agreed to make Czechia the official short name . The new name was approved by the Czech cabinet on 2 May 2016 and was published in the United Nations UNTERM and UNGEGN country name databases on 5 July 2016 . In September 2016, the British Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) recommended the use of Czechia and added it as the sole form of the country name to their list of country names . On 26 September 2016, the International Organization for Standardization included the short name Czechia in the official ISO 3166 country codes list . Geographic and geolocation resources that have adopted Czechia include Google Maps (as of 18 January 2017) and Google Earth, the Common Locale Data Repository and the 2017 Oxford Atlas of the World . Apple Inc. began using Czechia in system settings with iOS 11 . </P> <P> The first known usage of the word Czechia in English comes from the book by Henry and Thomas Rose "" A New General Biographical Dictionary Projected and Partly Arranged" from 1841 . Later 19th century uses can be found in 1856 and in an 1866 report about the Prussian - Austrian war in the Australian newspaper "The Mercury" from 23 July 1866 . </P>

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