In an act of punctuation compromise that would have dramatic geopolitical ramifications, the new parliament in Czechoslovakia settled on an official name on March 29, 1990.
The parliament agreed the post-Communist nation would be named the Československá federativní republika when written in Czech, and the Česko-slovenská federatívna republika when written in Slovak.
The presence of the hyphen proved too controversial, and the country's name changed again a month later, to Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika.