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Czech literature can refer to literature written in Czech, in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia, earlier the Lands of the Bohemian Crown), or by Czech people. Most literature in the Czech Republic is now written in Czech, but historically, a considerable part of Czech literary output was written in other languages as well, including ...
In foreign relations the newly established republic relied heavily on its western allies of Great Britain and France. [41] That proved to be a mistake as in 1938, both allied countries agreed to Hitler's demands and co-signed the Munich Treaty , stripping the Czechoslovakia of its borderlands, leaving it indefensible.
The nature and importance of Francophone literature in various territories of the former French Empire depends on the concentration of French settlers, the length of time spent in colonial status, and how developed indigenous languages were as literary languages. It was only following the Second World War that a distinction started to be made ...
After the stabilization of the grammatical norm, it was necessary to supplement the vocabulary. Czech, which had been pushed out of most literary genres and especially science for a long time, lacked the necessary vocabulary categories, mainly professional terminology and then stylistically symptomatic lexical layers characteristic of poetry and fiction in general.
In early November 1938, under the First Vienna Award, Czechoslovakia was forced to cede the mainly Hungarian-populated southern Slovakia (one third of Slovakia) to Hungary. After an ultimatum on 30 September (but without consulting with any other countries), Poland obtained the disputed the Trans-Olza region as a territorial cession shortly ...
Czech Republic–France are the current and historical relationship between the Czech Republic and France. The first diplomatic contacts between the two countries date back to the Middle Ages. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the European Union and NATO. Since 1999, the Czech Republic is also an observer in the ...
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.
Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country, especially questions relating to the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated people, and themes such as racialism and colonialism.