Veritas Vincit (Latin) ("Truth prevails") | |||||||
| Capital | Prague | ||||||
| Other cities | Bratislava, Brno, Ostrava | ||||||
| Language official |
Czech and Slovak | ||||||
| others | Hungarian, Moravian, Russian | ||||||
| Religion main |
Catholicism | ||||||
| others | Protestantism | ||||||
| Demonym | Czechoslovak | ||||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional republic | ||||||
| Legislature | Federal Assembly | ||||||
| Independence | from Austria-Hungary | ||||||
| declared | October 28, 1918 | ||||||
| Currency | Koruna (CSK)
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| Time Zone | CET (UTC+1 | ||||||
| summer | CEST (UTC+2 | ||||||
| Calling Code | +42 | ||||||
| Internet TLD | .cs | ||||||
| Organizations | EU, UN, V3 | ||||||
The Czechoslovak Federal Republic, colloquially known as Czechoslovakia (Czech: Československo, Slovak: Česko‑Slovensko), and abbreviated as the CSFR (ČSFR); is a sovereign state located in Eastern Europe. Czechoslovakia came into existence in 1918 as part of the partitioning of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following World War I. From the Munich Agreement of 1938 until the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Czechoslovakia had continuously been under the occupation of a foreign power — first by Nazi Germany (1938-1945) and then the Soviet Union (1945-1989). Czechoslovakia became the only nation of the former Soviet Bloc to break away and transition toward democracy peacefully. The nation has been a member state of the European Union since 2004, and holds close relations with neighboring Hungary and Poland.
The nation is dominated by two peoples: the Czechs and the Slovaks. The majority of Czechoslovaks proclaim to be unaffiliated with any particular religion, with Catholicism being the most followed religion in the nation.
Subdivisions[]
Czechoslovakia is a federation currently made up of three republics.
Bohemia (Prague)- Moravia-Silesia (Brno)
- Slovakia (Bratislava)
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