History of the Czech lands

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This article is part of the Czech history series.

Samo's realm

Great Moravia

Middle Ages

The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

1. Prehistory (700 000 BC – 400 BC)
2. Celts (400 BC – 8 BC) – Boii
3. Germanic tribes (8 BC – 511 AD) – Marcomanni & Quadi
4. Slavs: Czechs & Moravians – since the 6th century (535?)
5. # Samo’s realm (623 – 658)
6. # Moravian principality (late 8th century – 833) in Moravia
7. # Great Moravia (833 – 907) in Moravia (888/890 – 894 also in Bohemia)
8. # Bohemian Principality (880s – 1198): in Moravia the Margraviate of Moravia since 1182
9. # Bohemian Kingdom (1198 – 1918): since 1526 under Habsburg rule (personal union with Austrian lands & Hungary)
10. # Czechoslovakia (1918 – 1992): since 1969 the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR), since 1990 the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (ČSFR)
11. # Czech Republic (since 1993)

Periods through history

Arrival of the Slavs

The Slavs (Czech tribes in Bohemia and Moravians in Moravia) arrived in the 6th century.

Samo‘s realm

Main article: Samo

Great Moravia

Main article: Great Moravia

Bohemian Principality

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Bohemian Kingdom and Margraviate of Moravia till 1526

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Bohemian Estates against Habsburg Absolutism

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The Dark Age and National Revival

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The Dual Monarchy Austria – Hungary

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Czechoslovakia

Main articles: and History of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia – From creation to dissolution – Overview

	Czecho-Slovakia or Czechoslovakia (1918 - 1939; 1945 - 1992)
Austria-Hungary (until 1918) (Bohemia, Moravia, a part of Silesia, northern parts of the Kingdom of Hungary (Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia)	Czecho-Slovak/Czechoslovak Republic (ČSR) (1918-1938)	Sudetenland + other German territories (1938-1945) "Upper Hungary" territories of Hungary (1938-1945)		Czechoslovak Republic (ČSR) (1945-1960)	Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR) (1960-1990) Czech Socialist Republic Slovak Socialist Republic	Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (ČSFR) (1990-1992) Czech Republic Slovak Republic	Czech Republic (since 1993) Slovakia (since 1993)
		Czecho-Slovak Republic (ČSR) incl. autonomous Slovakia and Transcarpathian Ukraine (1938-1939)	Protectorate (1939-1945) WWII Slovak Republic (1939-1945)
			(further) "Highland territories" of Hungary (1939-1945)	part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1945/1946-1991)		Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine (from 1991)
		nazism		1948-1989 a satellite of the Soviet Union
			govern. in exile

Czech Republic

1 January 1993 meant "velvet divorce" of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Now a member of NATO (since 1999) and of the European Union (since 2004), the Czech Republic has moved toward integration in world markets, a development that poses both opportunities and risks.

See also

• History of Czechoslovakia
• Bohemia
• Moravia
• Slovakia
• Lech, Czech and Rus

External links

• [Czech description read Radio Prague online history] - short text
• [Catholic history of Bohemia]
• [Catholic history of Moravia]

 

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