Alternate names for Central European countries

Do you have an alternate names for Central European countries, ie. Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary ?

Hungary and Slovakia could be "Danubia" or "Leithania" if part of an Austro-Hungarian empire that reformed along federal lines.

Maybe the Czech Republic could be called Bohemia, from its main region? Or (ASB warning) Taboria in case of a Hussite victory.
 

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Well it looks like the Czech Republic may soon change to Czechia. Some countries have an English name which is completely different to the name in the local language, eg Hungary is Magyarország, Finland is Suomi. Of course these both had different language origins to most European countries.
 
Finland is Suomi

Finland was originally the southwestern most part of the country (Area surrounding Turku), which is where the tribe which Sweden called 'Finns' lived. Its only somewhere in the 17th century that Finland started being used about all of modern day Finland, and thats primarily because of that it became titulated as a duchy named after the most important (and just about only heavily urbanized/'swedifized') region in the area
 
English-speakers used 'Dutchland' as a general name for all the continental Germanics - which were all nominally united in the 'Kingdom of Germany' - until the Dutch and Swiss broke off in the 17th century. It shifted to referring to the Netherlands specifically due to the Anglo-Dutch Wars, and so 'German' came into use for remainder of the Germanic HRE in the vein 'Belgian' had once been a catch-all Latinate name for the Low Countries.

Perhaps if the Dutch take the Belgian moniker as more than just a poetic name, or even capture the southern Netherlands, you could have 'Belgium' be the Netherlands and 'Dutchland' refer to Germany.
 
English-speakers used 'Dutchland' as a general name for all the continental Germanics - which were all nominally united in the 'Kingdom of Germany' - until the Dutch and Swiss broke off in the 17th century. It shifted to referring to the Netherlands specifically due to the Anglo-Dutch Wars, and so 'German' came into use for remainder of the Germanic HRE in the vein 'Belgian' had once been a catch-all Latinate name for the Low Countries.

Perhaps if the Dutch take the Belgian moniker as more than just a poetic name, or even capture the southern Netherlands, you could have 'Belgium' be the Netherlands and 'Dutchland' refer to Germany.

Why not just call the Dutch Netherlanders?
 
Finland was originally the southwestern most part of the country (Area surrounding Turku), which is where the tribe which Sweden called 'Finns' lived. Its only somewhere in the 17th century that Finland started being used about all of modern day Finland, and thats primarily because of that it became titulated as a duchy named after the most important (and just about only heavily urbanized/'swedifized') region in the area
But note that 'Finnmark' is the Sami populated section of northern Norway. I suspect you'd find that 'Finn' was a generic Norse word for Finnic speakers.

Note: Sami (Lapp) is surely cognate with Suomi (Finn)
 
Romania could potentially have been named Vlachia instead.
Bulgaria could be called Thrace, Rumelia, things like that.
Perhaps Greece could've been "Hellenia"?
 
All or part of the Low Countries could be called "Burgundy". Hungary could have finished up as "Avaria" or "Gepidia".
 
Poland could be named for any of the Polish-speaking tribes that lived there before the Polish state formed.

All or part of the Low Countries could be called "Burgundy". Hungary could have finished up as "Avaria" or "Gepidia".

Avaria to me seems like it would be Slavic *Hungary, Slavicised Avars. Likewise, Pannonia would be a Romance-speaking Hungary.

For that matter, Germany could have ended up as Burgundy (in some languages, at least), if the Burgundians had settled more in that region instead of where they settled OTL. Same thing goes for a lot of other Germanic tribes of Late Antiquity. After all, Germany is named for the Alemanni in numerous languages.
 
Depends on when you hasve a POD?
With no major POD you could go with:
Teutonia/Dutchland= Germany
Eastmarch/Ostmarkia=Austria
Bohemia=Czechia
Nitrany=Slovakia
Pannonia/Madyary=Hungary
Lechia=Poland
Samogitia=Lithuania
Vlachia/Dacia=Romania
Rumelia/Thracia=Bulgaria
Vardaria=Macedonia
Mesia=Serbia
Savia and Dalmatia=Croatia
Carniola =Slovenia
Illyria=Bosnia
Duklia/Zeta=Montenegro
Eprios/ Union of Toskaria and Ghegasria=Albania
Rhomania=Greece (borrowed from my TL)
 
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