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  2. Czech lands - Wikipedia

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    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 and cultural context, denotes the three historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia out of which Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic, were formed.

  3. History of the Czech lands - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. 1907 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Czech lands

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    [1] [2] The Czech lands (Kingdom of Bohemia, Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia) elected 194 out of the 516 seats in the Imperial Council. These elections were the first which were held under universal male suffrage , after an electoral reform abolishing tax paying requirements for voters had been adopted by the ...

  5. Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1648–1867) - Wikipedia

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    The consequences for Bohemia were manifold. Many of the nobles sublet their lands and invested their profits in industrial enterprise, such as the development of textile, coal, and glass manufacture. Czech peasants, now free to leave the land, moved to cities and manufacturing centers. Urban areas, formerly populated by Germans, became ...

  6. 1911 Cisleithanian legislative election in the Czech lands

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    The Czech lands (Kingdom of Bohemia, Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia) elected 194 out of the 516 seats in the Imperial Council. This was the second election under universal male suffrage and it was won by the Czechoslavonic Agrarian Party (the German Agrarian Party was also successful).

  7. Czech lands in the High Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Owners of land or property formed the nobility, historically divided into higher nobility (lords) and lower. Since the demise of the 12th century records, [clarification needed] the Czech aristocracy was part of the chivalric culture flourishing in Western Europe, which had been introduced to the Czech lands through neighbouring German regions ...

  8. Category:History of the Czech lands - Wikipedia

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  9. Famines in the Czech lands - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded famine in the Czech lands occurred from 1272 to 1282 and was caused by warfare and weather, which decreased the volume of crops harvested in the region. This first instance of famine caught the inhabitants off guard and caused 600,000 deaths, mostly through endemic plagues, although there were some occurrences of cannibalism .