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History of the Czech Lands

The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:
  1. Prehistory (700 000 BC – 400 BC)\n# Celts (400 BC – 8 BC) – Boii\n# Germanic tribes (8 BC – 511 AD) – Marcomanni & Quadi\n# Slavs: Czechs & Moravians – since the 6th century (535?)\n## Samo’s realm (623 – 658)\n## Moravian principality (late 8th century – 833) in Moravia\n## Great Moravia (833 – 907) in Moravia (888/890 – 894 also in Bohemia) \n## Bohemian Principality (880s – 1198): in Moravia the Margraviate of Moravia since 1182 \n## Bohemian Kingdom (1198 – 1918): since 1526 under Habsburg rule (personal union with Austrian lands & Hungary)\n## Czechoslovakia (1918 – 1992): since 1969 the Czech Socialist Republic, since 1990 the Czech Republic\n## Czech Republic (since 1993)

Table of contents
1 Arrival of the Slavs
2 Great Moravia
3 Bohemian Principality
4 Bohemian Kingdom and Margraviate of Moravia till 1526
5 Bohemian Estates against Hapsburg Absolutism
6 The Dark Age and National Revival
7 The Dual Monarchy Austria – Hungary
8 Czechoslovakia
9 Czech Republic
10 See also
11 External links

Arrival of the Slavs

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

Samo‘s realm

\nMain article:
Samo

Great Moravia

\nMain article:
Great Moravia

Bohemian Principality

\nMain article:
Czech lands: 880s-1198

Bohemian Kingdom and Margraviate of Moravia till 1526

\nMain article:
Czech lands: 1198-1526

Bohemian Estates against Hapsburg Absolutism

\nMain article:
Czech lands: 1526-1648

The Dark Age and National Revival

\nMain article:
Czech lands: 1648-1867

The Dual Monarchy Austria – Hungary

\nMain article:
Czech lands: 1867-1918

Czechoslovakia

\nMain articles:
Czech lands: 1918-1992 and History of Czechoslovakia

Czech Republic

\n1 January 1993 meant "velvet divorce" of 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

\n*
Czech Republic\n* History of Czechoslovakia\n* Bohemia\n* Moravia\n* Czech lands\n* Slovakia

External links

\n*
Czech description read Radio Prague online history - short text\n* Catholic history of Bohemia\n* Catholic history of Moravia \n

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