| Czechia, also called the Czech Republic (Česká republika in the Czech language), is located in central Europe bordered by Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. The short name Czechia is also used in English. For centuries it was part of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor, the Empire of Austria-Hungary. The Empire was dissolved at the end of World War I, and Czechia then became part of the new nation of Czechoslavakia. In 1993 Czechoslovakia was peacefully divided into Czechia on the west and Slovakia on the east. The Czech government directed use of Czechia as the official English short name for the country in 2016 and its use has become more common in recent years. In particular the European Union and the United Nations use Czechia as the name in all their English language publications. Commercial navigation in Czechia is limited to the Rivers Labe (Elbe) and Vltava (Moldau); the Vltava is a major tributary of the Elbe, and the Elbe flows northwestward through Germany to the North Sea. Navigation on the rivers is guided by small lighted and unlighted beacons; there are no official lighthouses. The Czech word for a lighthouse is maják (plural majáky); ostrov is an island, řeka is a river and přístav is a harbor.
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