History of the Czech lands

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The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

       • 888–894 also comprised Bohemia

  • Bohemian Principality (870s–1198)

       • including Moravia, since 1197 the Margraviate of Moravia

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

       • 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

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

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[edit] Periods through history

Great Moravia during the reign of Svatopluk I
Territory under the control of the Přemyslids, c. 1301

[edit] Pre-history

Early modern humans had settled in the region by the Paleolithic. The Předmostí archaeological site in Moravia is dated to between 24,000 and 27,000 years old.[1][2]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Samo's realm

[edit] Great Moravia

[edit] Bohemian Principality

[edit] Bohemian Kingdom and Margravate of Moravia to 1526

[edit] Bohemian Estates against Habsburg absolutism

[edit] The Dark Age and National Revival

[edit] Austria–Hungary, the Dual Monarchy

[edit] Czechoslovakia

[edit] Czechoslovakia from creation to dissolution (overview)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Further reading

  • Hochman, Jiří. Historical dictionary of the Czech State (1998)
  • Heimann, Mary. 'Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed' 2009 ISBN 0-300-14147-5
  • Lukes, Igor. 'Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler', Oxford University Press 1996, ISBN 0-19-510267-3
  • Skilling Gordon. 'Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution', Princeton University Press 1976, ISBN 0-691-05234-4

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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