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The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in "Chronica Polonorum" (1506). Lech, Czech and Rus (Czech pronunciation: [lɛx tʃɛx rus], Polish pronunciation: [lɛx t͡ʂɛx rus]) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles, the Czechs, and the Ruthenians [1] (Belarusians ...
The creation of the document, officially the Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation by its Provisional Government (Czech: Prohlášení nezávislosti československého národa zatímní vládou československou), was prompted by the imminent collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, of which the Czech and Slovak lands had been ...
"Prague to Its Victorious Sons", a monument to the Czechoslovak Legions at Palacký Square. The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Československé legie; Slovak: Československé légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and Slovaks [1] fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I and the White Army during the Russian Civil War until November 1919.
About 1.4 million Czech soldiers fought in World War I, 150,000 of which died. More than 90,000 Czech and Slovak volunteers formed the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia, France and Italy, where they fought against the Central Powers and later with White Russian forces against Bolshevik troops. [ 5 ]
Great Moravia war against East Francia Great Moravia Bohemia: East Francia: Victory 936-950 Bohemian-Saxon War Duchy of Bohemia: Holy Roman Empire: Defeat 975-978 War against Otto II. Duchy of Bohemia: Holy Roman Empire: Victory 988-990 Polish-Czech War: Duchy of Bohemia: Duchy of Poland Holy Roman Empire: Defeat 995 War against Slavník ...
But although the Czech and Slovak national movements began drawing closer together, their ultimate goals remained unclear. At least until World War I, the Czech and Slovak national movements struggled for autonomy within Austria and Hungary, respectively. Only during the war did the idea of an independent Czecho-Slovakia emerge.
The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918. The new state consisted mostly of territories inhabited by Czechs and Slovaks, but also included areas containing majority populations of other nationalities, particularly Germans (22.95 %), who accounted for more citizens than the state's second state nation of the Slovaks, [1] Hungarians ...
The statement, released by the Soviet news agency Tass, said that sending in troops constituted "interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign Czechoslovakia and it must be condemned." [105] The Soviet government also said that the 1968 action was "an unbalanced, inadequate approach, an interference in the affairs of a friendly country ...