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Syldavia

/silˈdabja/

proper noun/silˈdabja/

Syldavia is feminine in Spanish.

Syldavia

“¿cuántos podrían distinguir las fallidas Yugoslavia y Checoslovaquia de las ficticias Syldavia y Borduria?” — How many could distinguish the failed Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia from the fictitious Syldavia and Borduria?

Borrowed from French Syldavie, a blend of Transylvanie + Moldavie. Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.