The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast.
With the collapse of the Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, the independent country of Czechoslovakia (Czech, Slovak: Československo) was formed as a result of the critical intervention of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, among others.
It is the Czech government's intention that promoting the name Czechia will reduce confusion for English speakers and also enhance the country's identity and economy.
Established after World War I from territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia faced internal disputes regarding governance and autonomy. Czechs often favored a unified state, while Slovaks were concerned about potential domination due to their historical economic and cultural disparities.
According to the 2021 census, of the 70 percent of citizens who responded to the question about their religious beliefs, approximately 48 percent held none, 10 percent were Roman Catholic, 13 percent listed no specific religion, and 9 percent identified with a variety of religious faiths, including the Evangelical ...
In the case of the Czech state, the formal name is “the Czech Republic” (“Česká republika” in Czech) and the short form Czechia (“Česko” in Czech) stands as its equivalent.
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic,is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south.
The Bohemians (Latin: Behemanni) or Bohemian Slavs (Bohemos Slavos, Boemanos Sclavos) or Czechs (in Slavic languages), were an early Slavic tribe in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). Their land became recognized as the Duchy of Bohemia around 870 (later becoming Kingdom of Bohemia, nowadays Czech Republic).
In the 20th century Moravia became part of the modern state of Czechoslovakia and subsequently of the Czech Republic. The region is bounded by Bohemia on the west and northwest, by Silesia on the northeast, by Slovakia on the east, and by Lower Austria on the south.
The Czech Republic joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on 12 March 1999. Czech soldiers currently participate in two NATO operations - Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan and KFOR in Kosovo. At present, the NATO consists of 29 independent countries.
Czechs, like most Europeans, largely descend from three distinct lineages: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, descended from a Cro-Magnon population that arrived in Europe about 45,000 years ago, Neolithic farmers who migrated from Anatolia during the Neolithic Revolution 9,000 years ago, and Yamnaya steppe pastoralists who ...
On Jan. 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, an event sometimes called the “Velvet Divorce.” But despite having been one nation for roughly 75 years, the two countries have very different religious profiles, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.
On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of appeasement for several reasons: it proved that Hitler had been lying at Munich.
There are an estimated 20,000 Muslims in the Czech Republic, representing 0.2% of the country's population. The growing Turkish community form the largest Muslim population in the country.
The countries with the most people reporting no belief in any sort of spirit, god, or higher power are France (40%), Czech Republic (37%), Sweden (34%), Netherlands (30%), Estonia (29%), Germany (27%), Belgium (27%) and Slovenia (26%).
Why did Czechoslovakia split into two countries? Czechoslovakia split into two states for social, political, and cultural reasons. The largest contributing factor to the split was disagreement over the privatization of Czechoslovakian factories after the end of communist rule.
Czechs are a Slavic ethnic group with Austrian/German (and also Italian, Polish, Hungarian, and Balkan) cultural and genetic influence. Germans and Hungarians have Slavic influence.
Cultural relations between Slovaks and Czechs are exceptionally close and friendly. This is mainly due to their linguistic and cultural proximity, which is almost unique in the world. The Czech and Slovak languages are so closely related that both peoples understand each other well in everyday life.
During the 40 years of Communist rule; however, religion was virtually outlawed, and churchgoing was strongly discouraged. Perhaps due to so many years of institutionalized atheism, many Czechs today are either atheist or refuse to affiliate with any one church.
The modern Slovaks are allegedly descen- dants of the White Croats who moved from the upper Morava and upper Odra rivers gradually by the twelfth century to the Kingdom of Hungary and only thus suc- ceeded in preserving themselves as an independent ethnic group.
These people live in Eastern and Central Europe as well as Siberia, and are considered more a language group than a race. This becomes more evident when one notices the differences in their appearance. Some are light-skinned while others are dark; some are blonds and others have brown hair.
Slovak is closely related to Czech, to the point of very high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish. Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is a fusional language with a complex system of morphology and relatively flexible word order.
