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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region of the northern Czech Republic along the Polish border. Long inhabited by ethnic Germans, it was seized by the Nazis in September 1938 and was restored to Czechoslovakia in 1945, after which the German population was expelled.
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- proper noun a
region inCzechia .
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The term Sudetenland was not much used before the 1930s.
Far Outliers 2009
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For most of five centuries, German speakers inhabited the area, which was part of what the Nazis called the Sudetenland when they annexed it in 1938.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels Todd Pitock 2011
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Under it, Czechoslovakia was forced to give Hitler the region known as Sudetenland, where Germans were in the majority.
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Despite assurances that the Sudetenland was his last territorial demands, "Czechia", as the remainder of Czechoslovakia was called, became a German protectorate on March 15, 1939, when Hitler ordered it occupied.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DMorris 2010
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Despite assurances that the Sudetenland was his last territorial demands, "Czechia", as the remainder of Czechoslovakia was called, became a German protectorate on March 15, 1939, when Hitler ordered it occupied.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DMorris 2010
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Despite assurances that the Sudetenland was his last territorial demands, "Czechia", as the remainder of Czechoslovakia was called, became a German protectorate on March 15, 1939, when Hitler ordered it occupied.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Joaquín Martínez 2010
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The price of that peace which never came was concession of a portion of western Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, populated by a large minority of ethnic Germans.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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The 1945 decrees, which were issued shortly after the war by then-President Edvard Benes with the blessing of the victorious Allies, provided for the expulsion of 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia's border regions known as the Sudetenland, where they had lived for centuries, and the confiscation of their property.
unknown title 2009
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The 1945 decrees, which were issued shortly after the war by then-President Edvard Benes with the blessing of the victorious Allies, provided for the expulsion of 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia's border regions known as the Sudetenland, where they had lived for centuries, and the confiscation of their property.
unknown title 2009
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Despite assurances that the Sudetenland was his last territorial demands, "Czechia", as the remainder of Czechoslovakia was called, became a German protectorate on March 15, 1939, when Hitler ordered it occupied.
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