History Of The Czech Lands
The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods:
- Slavs: Bohemians and Moravians – arrival into Czech area during the 6th century (535?)
- Samo's realm (623–658)
- Moravian principality (~800–833) in Moravia
- Great Moravia (833–907)
- 888–894 also comprised Bohemia
- Bohemian Principality (870s–1198)
- including Moravia, since 1197 the Margraviate of Moravia
- Kingdom of Bohemia (1198–1348/1918)
- since 1291/1335 also with Silesia (duchies) and both Lusatias (margraviates)
- Crown of Bohemia (1348–1749/1918) – de facto cancelled in 1749
- since 1526 under Habsburg rule (personal union with Austria and Hungary)
- 1620/27 lost independence, part of Habsburg Empire
- since 1804 part of Austrian Empire
- since 1867 part of Austria-Hungary
- Czechoslovakia (1918–1992)
- since 1960 the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR)
- since 1990 the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (ČSFR)
- Czech Republic (since 1993)
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