All I can recall is a conversation in "My Fair Lady" wherein Prof Higgins tells about another teacher who is from Carpathia and who is trying to trip up Elixa!

I remember hearing about Carpathia as a child but in reference to what I cannot say. Could it perhaps be one of those places that lost its identity during the sway of the USSR and has long since been submerged in another land or culture?
WAIT!
OED says Carpathia referes to Carpathos, an Island in the Aegean Sea then also says a mountain range in central and eastern Europe.