Czechia
- Also Known As: Czech Republic
- Vicinity: Central Europe
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Central Bohemian Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Hradec Kralove Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Karlovy Vary Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Liberec Region | Czech Kraj | ||
| Olomouc Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Pardubice Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Plzen Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Prague, CZ | City | ||
| South Bohemian Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| South Moravian Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Ustecky Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Vysocina Region, CZ | Czech Kraj | ||
| Zlin Region, CZ | Czech Kraj |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape |
| Physiographic Features | Type | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|
| Beskids | Mountain System |
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| Central Beskids | Mountain System |
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| Elbe River | River |
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| The Elbsandsteingebirge | Mountain Range | |
| Western Beskids | Mountain System |
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Central Europe, between Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria - The World Factbook
| Particulars for Czechia: | |
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| Locale Type | Nation |
| Data | |
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| Demonym: | Czech |
| Corruption Perceptions Index - 2014, Transparency International: | 53 |
At the close of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, having rejected a federal system, the new country's predominantly Czech leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the increasingly strident demands of other ethnic minorities within the republic, most notably the Slovaks, the Sudeten Germans, and the Ruthenians (Ukrainians). On the eve of World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Czech part of the country and Slovakia became an independent state allied with Germany. After the war, a reunited but truncated Czechoslovakia (less Ruthenia) 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 rule and create "socialism with a human face," ushering in a period of repression known as "normalization." The peaceful "Velvet Revolution" swept the Communist Party from power at the end of 1989 and inaugurated a return to democratic rule and a market economy. On 1 January 1993, the country underwent a nonviolent "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. - The World Factbook
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amerika | Book | Franz Kafka | ||
| City Sister Silver | Book | Jachym Topol | ||
| Closely Watched Trains (book) | Mezzobula | Bohumil Hrabal | Czechs! You know what they are? | |
| Closely Watched Trains (film) | Film | Jiri Menzel | "Closely Watched Trains" is set in Czechoslovakia during WWII. | |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Book | Milan Kundera | ||
| The Castle | Book | Franz Kafka | ||
| The Engineer of Human Souls | Book | Josef Skvorecky | ||
| The Good Soldier Svejk | Book | Jaroslav Hasek | ||
| The Trial | Book | Franz Kafka | ||
| Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light | Book | Ivan Klima | ||
| War with the Newts | Book | Karel Capek |
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