Etymology

Sudetenland

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Today it means: The northern, southern, and western border areas of former Czechoslovakia, which (until 1945) were inhabited mainly by German-speakers Full definition →

German Sudetenland
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  1. German · borrowed fromSudetenland
  2. English todaySudetenland

Borrowed from German Sudetenland, named after the Sudeten mountain range, but encompassing a far greater area.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.