History of the Czech lands

Czech history
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The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

• Slavs: Bohemians and Moravians – arrival into Czech area during the 6th century (535?)
• Samo’s realm (623–658)
• Moravian principality (~800–833) in Moravia
• Great Moravia (833–907)
  

       • 888–894 also comprised Bohemia

• Bohemian Principality (870s–1198)
  

       • including Moravia, since 1197 the Margraviate of Moravia

• Kingdom of Bohemia (1198–1348/1918)

       • since 1291/1335 also with Silesia (duchies) and both Lusatias (margraviates)

• Crown of Bohemia (1348–1749/1918) – de facto cancelled in 1749
  

       • since 1526 under Habsburg rule (personal union with Austria and Hungary)
       • 1620/27 lost independence, part of Habsburg Empire
       • since 1804 part of Austrian Empire
       • since 1867 part of Austria-Hungary

• Czechoslovakia (1918–1992)
  

       • since 1960 the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR)
       • since 1990 the Czechoslovak Federative Republic (ČSFR)

• Czech Republic (since 1993)

Periods through history

Arrival of the Slavs

The Slavs (Czech tribes in Bohemia and Moravians in Moravia) arrived in the sixth 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 further into central Bohemia. Many historians support theory of further wave of Slavs coming from the south during the first half of the seventh century.

Literature 

Dušan Třeštík: "Počátky Přemyslovců. Vstup Čechů do dějin (530-935)" [The beginnings of Přemyslids. The entrance of the Czechs in the History (530-935)], 1997, ISBN 80-7106-138-7.

Samo's realm

Great Moravia

Bohemian Principality

Bohemian Kingdom and Margravate of Moravia to 1526

Bohemian Estates against Habsburg absolutism

The Dark Age and National Revival

Austria–Hungary, the Dual Monarchy

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia from creation to dissolution (overview)

the 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
• Czech Silesia
• Slovakia
• Lech, Czech and Rus

External links

• All about Czech history – official web of the Czech Republic
• Czech description read Radio Prague online history - short text
• History of Bohemia until 1914 – from Catholic and German point of view
• History of Moravia until 1914 – from Catholic and German point of view

Historical territories in the contemporary Czech Republic  Bohemia Moravia Silesia