history of the czech lands

The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:

Prehistory (700 000 BC – 400 BC)
Celts (400 BC – 8 BC) – Boii
Germanic tribes (8 BC – 511 AD) – Marcomanni & Quadi
Slavs: Czechs & Moravians – since the 6th century (535?)

Samo’s realm (623 – 658)
Moravian principality (late 8th century – 833) in Moravia
Great Moravia (833 – 907) in Moravia (888/890 – 894 also in Bohemia)
Bohemian Principality (880s – 1198): in Moravia the Margraviate of Moravia since 1182
Bohemian Kingdom (1198 – 1918): since 1526 under Habsburg rule (personal union with Austrian lands & Hungary)
Czechoslovakia (1918 – 1992): since 1969 the Czech Socialist Republic, since 1990 the Czech Republic
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

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Great Moravia

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Bohemian Principality

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Bohemian Kingdom and Margraviate of Moravia till 1526

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Bohemian Estates against Hapsburg Absolutism

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The Dark Age and National Revival

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The Dual Monarchy Austria – Hungary

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Czechoslovakia

Main articles: 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.