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17 wrz 2024 · Czechoslovakia, former country in central Europe encompassing the historical lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. It was formed from several provinces of the collapsing empire of Austria-Hungary in 1918, at the end of World War I. In 1993 it was split into the new countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- Sudetenland
Sudetenland, sections of northern and western Bohemia and...
- Košice Government
Košice government, pro-Soviet Czechoslovak provisional...
- International Investment Bank
The bank continued to operate in its Moscow headquarters,...
- Czechoslovak History
With the dissolution of the Czechoslovak federation, the...
- Czechoslovakia (1918–92)
The Czech intellectual elite could look back at a thousand...
- Sudetenland
On 1 January 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were simultaneously and peacefully established as independent states. Relationships between the two states, despite occasional disputes about the division of federal property and the governing of the border, have been peaceful.
On 1 January 1993, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic each simultaneously and peacefully proclaimed their existence. Both states attained immediate recognition from the United States of America and from their European neighbors.
With the dissolution of the Czechoslovak federation, the modern states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia came into being on Jan. 1, 1993. Czechoslovakia itself had been formed at the end of World War I , following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
1989–1990: Czechoslovakia formally became a federal republic comprising the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic. In late 1989, the communist rule came to an end during the Velvet Revolution followed by the re-establishment of a democratic parliamentary republic .
18 cze 2020 · Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on December 31, 1992, and split into two new countries: Slovakia and the Czech Republic. As World War II ended, Soviet troops came in and took control of much of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia.
The Czech intellectual elite could look back at a thousand years of state history, first as a principality and then as a kingdom, while Slovakia had never existed as a separate geopolitical unit. The Czechs also were better educated and considerably more urbanized, industrialized, and secularized than the Slovaks, who had suffered from ...
