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Within that state, the Czech Socialist Republic (Česká socialistická republika, ČSR) [9] was created on 1 January 1969. [13] On 6 March 1990 the Czech Socialist Republic was renamed the Czech Republic (Česká republika, ČR). [14] When Czechoslovakia broke up in 1993, the Czech part of the name was intended to serve as the name of the ...
Internet TLD. .cz [ b ] 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 ]
t. e. The history of the Czech lands – an area roughly corresponding to the present-day Czech Republic – starts approximately 800 years BCE. A simple chopper from that age was discovered at the Red Hill (Czech: Červený kopec) archeological site in Brno. [ 1 ]
The history of the Czech lands in the High Middle Ages encompasses the period from the rule of Vladislav II (c.1110–1174 AD) to that of Henry of Bohemia (c.1265–1335). [1] The High Middle Ages includes the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries (c. 1000–1299). It was preceded by the Early Middle Ages (the fifth to the tenth centuries) and ...
Germany. Poland. Slovakia. The Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech: České království), [a] sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, [8][9][a] was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the predecessor state of the modern Czech Republic. The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire.
The Czech Republic is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the OECD, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Visegrád Group. (Full article...) On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic ...
Czech historical lands and current administrative regions ()The Czech lands or the Bohemian lands [1] [2] [3] (Czech: České země, pronounced [ˈtʃɛskɛː ˈzɛmɲɛ]) is a historical-geographical term which, in a historical context, denotes the three historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia out of which Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic, were formed.
Bohemia (/ boʊˈhiːmiə / boh-HEE-mee-ə; [ 2 ] Czech: Čechy [ˈtʃɛxɪ] ⓘ; [ 3 ] German: Böhmen [ˈbøːmən] ⓘ; Upper Sorbian: Čěska [ˈtʃɪska]; Silesian: Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ...