History of the Czechs - Definition

The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

1. Prehistory (700 000 BC – 400 BC)
2. Celts (400 BC – 8 BC) – Boii
3. Germanic tribes (8 BC – 511 AD) – Marcomanni & Quadi
4. 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 Czech Socialist Republic, since 1990 the Czech Republic
   7. Czech Republic (since 1993)

Arrival of the Slavs

The Slavs (Czech tribes in Bohemia and Moravians in Moravia) arrived in the 6th century.

Samo‘s realm

Main article: Samo

Great Moravia

Main article: Great Moravia

Bohemian Principality

Main article: Czech lands: 880s-1198

Bohemian Kingdom and Margraviate of Moravia till 1526

Main article: Czech lands: 1198-1526

Bohemian Estates against Hapsburg Absolutism

Main article: Czech lands: 1526-1648

The Dark Age and National Revival

Main article: Czech lands: 1648-1867

The Dual Monarchy Austria – Hungary

Main article: Czech lands: 1867-1918

Czechoslovakia

Main articles: Czech lands: 1918-1992 and History of Czechoslovakia

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
• Slovakia

External links

• Czech description read Radio Prague online history (http://archiv.radio.cz/history/history00.html) - short text
• Catholic history of Bohemia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02612b.htm)
• Catholic history of Moravia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10561a.htm)