Leg 5 - Black Sea states
September 17th 2009 I have often pondered, but never resolved, what criteria grants a country the privilege of being referred to in the definite article? The Ukraine gets added to my list of The Gambia, The Sudan and The Lebanon. Anyone?
(by the way, I don't count The USA or The Czech Republic, as they are simply adverbed)
Before I was able to put the UK in the Ukraine, I had just the 5 border checkpoints to nego
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