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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 ...
Contents. Television in the Czech Republic. Television was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953. Experimental projects with DVB-T started in 2000. Finally on 21 October 2005, multiplex A (DVB-T) was launched with three channels of Česká televize and one of TV Nova and radio channels of Český rozhlas. On 12 April 2006, six digital ...
ČT24 is the Czech Republic's first and only 24-hour news channel, provides news and information around the clock with bulletins every hour. ČT24 is broadcast live over the Internet, as well as over the satellites Astra 3A, Astra 1KR and Intelsat 10-02. It is also carried on Czech cable-TV providers and digital terrestrial services.
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]
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 ...
At the price of the Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1929–1938 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1995). Korbel, Josef. Twentieth Century Czechoslovakia: The Meaning of its History (1977) Mamatey, V. S., and R. Luža, eds. A History of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-48 (1973) Skilling, H. ed. Czechoslovakia, 1918-88. Seventy Years from ...
English: There exists a slight controversy about the optimum accent to pronounce Czechia. Czechs generally favor three equally stressed syllables, as is usual in the Czech language: Čekija, as in this file. Some native English speakers may favor a stress on the second syllable and say Čekíja, i.e. Che-kee-yah.
The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech [ˈtʃɛx] ⓘ, singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic [ 17 ] in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech ...