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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Sudeti

Pronunciation / Transliteration: suˈdɛti

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sudetenland/suːˈdeɪtənˌlænd/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La regione dei Sudeti fu annessa dalla Germania nazista."

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As noun
  1. 1

    The historical German-speaking regions of northern, southern, and western Czechoslovakia that were annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.

    "The crisis over the Sudetenland precipitated the Munich Agreement in 1938."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Borrowed from German Sudetenland, composed of Sudeten (referring to the Sudeten Mountains) and Land (meaning land or country). The term gained international prominence during the interwar period and the 1938 Munich Agreement regarding the historically German-populated regions of Czechoslovakia.

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