History of the Czech lands

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Samo's Realm
Great Moravia
Middle Ages
Czech lands: 1526-1648
Czech lands: 1648-1867
Czech lands: 1867-1918
Czechoslovakia: 1918-1993
Czech Republic

The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

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

1 Periods through history
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Periods through history

[edit] Arrival of the Slavs

The Slavs (Czech tribes in Bohemia and Moravians in Moravia) arrived in the 6th century. According to historian Dušan Třeštík the first Slavs came through Moravian Gate (Moravská brána) valley and in 530 moved into the eastern Bohemia and along rivers Labe and Vltava futher into central Bohemia. Many historians support theory of futher wave of Slavs coming from the south during the first half of the 7th century.

Literature:

Dušan Třeštík: "Počátky Přemyslovců. Vstup Čechů do dějin (530-935)" [The beginnings of Premyslids. The entrance of the Czechs in the History (530-935)], 1997, ISBN 8071061387.

[edit] Samo‘s realm

Main article: Samo

[edit] Great Moravia

Main article: Great Moravia

[edit] Czechoslovakia – From creation to dissolution – Overview


	Czechoslovakia (or Czecho-Slovakia) \| 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)	Czechoslovak Republic (the first Republic) (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) "Upper Hungary" of Hungary (1939-1945)	part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1945/1946-1991)		Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine (since 1991)
		German occupation		1948-1989 a satellite state of the Soviet Union
			govern. in exile

[edit] 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.

Historical territories in the contemporary Czech Republic