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    Which landlocked central European country was mistakenly described by William Shakespeare as "a desert country near the sea"?

    Question #57685. Asked by Flem-ish. (Jun 11 05 1:42 AM)


    TabbyTom

    		Bohemia.

    (Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 3)

    Jun 11 05, 1:56 AM
    Flynn_17

    		Which is not actually a country, it's an area of northern Czech which also spills into Poland and Germany, hence Bohemia and Moravia.

    Jun 11 05, 7:18 AM
    Flem-ish

    		Which IS not actually a country any longer, but which WAS a country in Shakespeare's time, and is also described as such by him.In the definition of http:// www.brittanica.com Bohemia is a "historic country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs' Austrian Empire." The subsequent creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and the separation of the Czechoslovak Republic into Czechia and Slovakia in 1993 are relatively recent developments.

    Jun 11 05, 3:07 PM

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