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Within that state, the Czech Socialist Republic (Česká socialistická republika, ČSR) [9] was created on 1 January 1969. [17] On 6 March 1990 the Czech Socialist Republic was renamed the Czech Republic (Česká republika, ČR). [18] When Czechoslovakia broke up in 1993, the Czech part of the name was intended to serve as the name of the ...
The Czech Republic, [c] [12] also known as Czechia, [d] [13] and historically known as Bohemia, [14] is a landlocked country in Central Europe.The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. [15]
The Czech Republic emerged from the peaceful breakup of the old Czechoslovakia in 1993 -- but until now there hasn't been a standard one-word English name.
The Czech Socialist Republic (Czech: Česká socialistická republika, ČSR) was a republic within the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The name was used from 1 January 1969 to November 1989, when the previously unitary Czechoslovak state changed into a federation. From 1990 to 1992, the Czech Republic (Czech: Česká republika, ČR) existed as ...
In 1969, the Czech lands (including Bohemia) were given autonomy within Czechoslovakia as the Czech Socialist Republic. In 1990, the name was changed to the Czech Republic, which became a separate state in 1993 with the breakup of Czechoslovakia. [7] Until 1948, Bohemia was an administrative unit of Czechoslovakia as one of its "lands" (země). [8]
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Rozdělení Československa, Slovak: Rozdelenie Československa), which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the self-determined secession of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic (also known as Czechia) and Slovakia.
1989–1990: Czechoslovakia formally became a federal republic comprising the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic. In late 1989, the communist rule came to an end during the Velvet Revolution followed by the re-establishment of a democratic parliamentary republic .
In the Czech Republic, identity numbers given to people at birth and used in documents reveal a person's sex. The Czech language also has different endings for the surnames of males or females.