A hacek or háček (pronounced "'hatchek") is a diacritic (also known as a "caron") placed over certain letters to indicate palatalization[?] in the orthography of some Slavonic languages, such as Czech, and the Baltic languages and Estonian. It looks like an inverted circumflex and its name means "little hook" in Czech.
... the area. In August 1945, Russia again took over the control of Sakhalin. Since January 2, 1947, the Sakhalin Region, in its present form, was officially defined and ...