Satellite image of Czech
Republic in September 2003. Cropped image, original taken
from NASA's Visible Earth
Quelle:
Wikimedia Commons
Lizenz: Public domain
Die Tschechische Republik
(Amtliche
Vollform)
Die Tschechische Republik liegt in Mitteleuropa und umfasst traditionell die drei historischen Länder Böhmen, Mähren und Mährisch-Schlesien.
Amtliche
Kurzform:
Tschechische Republik
Name in Landessprache: Česko
Kurzform:
Ceska Republika
Vollform:
Ceská Republika Name in
Englisch: Czech Republic Ehemaliger Name: nach der Teilung am 1.1.93 als selbständiger Staat aus der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Föderative
Unabhängigkeit: Proklamation 28. 10. 1918; 1.1.1993 Trennung von der Slowakei
Staatsgebiet:
CIA
Background-Info
Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of other ethnic minorities within the republic, most notably the Sudeten Germans and the Ruthenians (Ukrainians). After World War II, a truncated Czechoslovakia fell within the Soviet sphere of influence. In 1968, an invasion by Warsaw Pact troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to liberalize Communist party rule and create "socialism with a human face." Anti-Soviet demonstrations the following year ushered in a period of harsh repression. With the collapse of Soviet authority in 1989, Czechoslovakia regained its freedom through a peaceful "Velvet Revolution." On 1 January 1993, the country underwent a "velvet divorce" into its two national components, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
