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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.
There are around 200,000 people of Slovak descent living in the Czech Republic and around 46,000 people of Czech descent living in Slovakia. Gustáv Slamečka , a Slovak citizen, was a Minister of Transportation of the Czech Republic from 2009 to 2010 and in his office he exclusively used the Slovak language.
Czechoslovakia [2] (/ ˌ tʃ ɛ k oʊ s l oʊ ˈ v æ k i. ə, ˈ tʃ ɛ k ə-,-s l ə-,-ˈ v ɑː-/ ⓘ CHEK-oh-sloh-VAK-ee-ə, CHEK-ə-, -slə-, - VAH-; [3] [4] Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) [5] [6] was a landlocked country in Central Europe, [7] created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
After the Velvet Revolution in late-1989, Czechoslovakia adopted the official short-lived country name Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (Czech: Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika, Slovak: Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika; ČSFR) during the period from 23 April 1990 until 31 December 1992, after which the country was peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and the ...
Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1928, with five provinces or lands. Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus newly created. Czechoslovakia from December 1, 1928; the state administration was unified in both the former Austrian and Hungarian parts of the state, while the number of provinces was reduced to four (Moravia and Czech Silesia merged).
In 2018 Slovakia was the 4th Czech trading partner (6.3%), [99] while the Czech Republic was the Slovak 2nd partner (11.5%). [100] There is an increasing number of Slovaks migrating to Czechia; currently it stands at around 215,000, [101] which in percentage terms is more than in the interwar period and less than in the Communist Czechoslovakia ...
In late November 1938, the truncated state, renamed Czecho-Slovakia (the so-called Second Republic), was reconstituted in three autonomous units: the Czech lands (i.e. Bohemia and Moravia), Slovakia, and Ruthenia. [citation needed] On 14 March 1939, the Slovak State declared its independence under Jozef Tiso. [20]
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 ]