stefan@i-2000.com wrote:
> 
> Well I can sympathize with both sides on this... (is that even allowed? :^)
> but maybe some sort of compromise is possible?
> I know that there are some towns in Germany which share the same
> name (e.g. Frankfurt) and maybe we can use a similar convention
> for referring to countries as we use for referring to towns?
> E.g. with Frankfurt we have "Frankfurt (am Main)" and "Frankfurt (an der Oder)".
> So maybe we can use "Macedonia (former Yogoslavic Republic of)" ?
> 
> Then at least people can find their locale by looking at the
> alphabetic order...
> 
Well, I agree with what has been said that the "former..." is crap.
So I would follow you in suggesting "Macedonia (Republic of)"

Greetings, Stephan

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