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	Czech Republic - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Czech parliament (Parlament) is bicameral, with a Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecká sněmovna) and a Senate (Senát).
		The Czech landscape is quite varied; Bohemia to the west consists of a basin, drained by the Elbe (Labe) and Vltava rivers, surrounded by mostly low mountains such as the Sudeten with its part Krkonose, where one also finds the highest point in the country, the Snezka at 1,602 m.
		A large percentage of the Czech population claim to be atheists (59%), and the remainder describe themselves as uncertain.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /czech_republic.htm (1126 words)

	Czech Republic -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In response to the imminent breakup of Czechoslovakia, a new Czech constitution was written.
		It was implemented with the birth of the new Czech Republic on Jan. 1, 1993.
		Czech players follow two-pronged strategy: Czech banks are focusing on institutions and consumers in preparation for the opportunities that EU accession promises to present.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/czechrep_history.asp (754 words)

	Czech history - Czech lands in primeval times
		Moravia and Silesia (the "Czech lands") existed from the Middle Age in the framework of one state or confederation of states.
		The history of the Czech lands and Slovakia as such does not form an organic whole, and it would be strained and unfortunate to make an attempt at their entire mapping in the framework of one account.
		The Czech lands did not come into more systematic relations with Classical times, which were reflected in their later civilization development.
	www.czeckitout.com /tjeck_history1.htm (805 words)

	Czech Republic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Czech Republic comprises the former provinces of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia, together often called the Czech Lands.
		In the western part of the republic lies the Bohemian plateau, which is separated by the Bohemian-Moravian heights from the fertile Moravian lowland in the eastern part of the republic.
		Agriculture is concentrated in the Moravian lowlands and in the valleys of the Elbe and Vltava rivers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cz/CzechRep.html (907 words)

	The history of the Czech lands to 1968
		However, Wenceslas has been venerated by the Czechs for many years, his memory was important in the middle ages, and his cult reappeared in a more secularised way during the Czech national revival of the nineteenth century and in more recent times as a symbol of freedom of expression under the communists.
		A.J.P. Taylor wrote that in 1620, "Czech Hussite culture was replaced by the cosmopolitan Baroque culture of the Counter-Reformation", and this was not meant as a complement.
		Seton-Watson, R.W., A history of the Czechs and Slovaks.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~lismd/czech/czech-1967.html (7551 words)

	Cookery Art RIN.RU - Beverages - The History of Beer in the Czech Lands
		The secret of Czech beer is that agricultural conditions are ideal for growing hops, and chronicles establish their cultivation in Bohemia as early as 859 A.D., while the first evidence of their export dates back to 903.
		The Czechs were even exporting their beer at this time, most notably the beer they brewed in the town of Ceske Budejovice in south Bohemia.
		The Czech nation - and its beer - did not begin to recover until the "national awakening" movement of the 19th century, when the Czech language, Czech culture, and Czech beer were reinvented after centuries of Germanization and decline.
	cookbook.rin.ru /cookbook_e/new_articles/drink/54.html (831 words)

	TCHCC Article - History of the Czech Lands
		The Czech Republic, which encompasses an area of l78,864 square kilometers, is composed of three territories: Bohemia, Moravia and a part of Silesia, which are also called the Czech lands.
		Failures of potato crops, floods, droughts and the lure of the California gold rush brought 25,000 Czech immigrants to the U.S. Industrialization of the Czech Lands with the development of enterprises such as the Vitkovice Ironworks near Ostrava, Moravia and the Skoda factory and Burgher Brewery in Plzen, Bohemia.
		The Republic was composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Czech Silesia, Slovakia and Carpatho-Russia.
	www.czechtexas.org /Extras/Articles/History.htm (1490 words)

	A Brief History of the Czech Lands
		One day, as the story goes, the Czech nobles refused to be ruled over by a woman, Princess Libuše, any longer; she told them to follow her horse till it led them to Přemysl, her husband-to-be, ploughing in a field.
		When, however, a 14th-century chronicler writes that “German speech is commoner than Czech almost in all towns and at the court”, this may be taken as referring in particular to the speech habits of the upper nobility and prosperous burghers.
		In the May 1946 election the number of political parties was limited to 7: 4 in the Czech lands, 3 in Slovakia, and the strong pre-war Agrarian party was banned.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~tayl0010/history.htm (4944 words)

	RP's History Online - Short Text
		Habsburg rule of the Czech lands was mostly repressive and harsh.
		Although the "Czech National Revival" (Narodni obrozeni) movement aspired at first only to a reintroduction of the use of the Czech language and the revival of Czech culture, it soon began to strive for political emancipation as well.
		Czech Republic of today set itself up to join NATO and has strived to become a member of the European Union and other western political and economic structures.
	archiv.radio.cz /history/history00.html (890 words)

	RP's History Online - How it all began
		In fact, the Latin name for the Czech lands, "Boiohaemum" (Bohemia), is derived from the name of the Boii Celtic tribe; and the Czech name for the Moldau River (which flows through the capital city of Prague) is Vltava - which is said to come from the Celtic "Vlt" meaning wild, and "Va" meaning water.
		The Czech Celts were in part chased out of the region and in part assimilated by the next peoples to inhabit the area: the Germanic Marcomanni and Quadi tribes from the west and the Romans from the south.
		As ruler of the lands, she was also the highest 'court of appeal' for disputes among the people.
	archiv.radio.cz /history/history02.html (1386 words)

	Reviews of books on history
		It is a history of immense fragmentation with constant conquest and chaos.
		The last decade or so of this history has witnessed momentous events: the velvet revolution as four decades of Communism was overthrown and the velvet separation as the Czech and Slovak peoples formed their own states.
		The consequnces were a land which was 85% Protestant becoming almost wholly Catholic within 10 years and almost half the population being massacred, starved or exiled by the impact of 30 years of war.
	www.rogerdarlington.co.uk /history.html (9472 words)

	History of the Czech lands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Slavs (Czech tribes in Bohemia and Moravians in Moravia) arrived in the 6th century.
		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.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Czech_Republic (285 words)

	History and Czech
		I have compiled a brief history of the Czech peoples to paint a clearer picture of their language progression.
		It is closer to Slovak lands, the far eastern portion of what was known as Czechoslovakia, and is made up of the eastern third of the country.
		I do not speak Czech but it is a desire of mine to show my Grandmother the love I have for her language and my respect for the people who strove to preserve it, namely my great grandparents.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/czech.html (2079 words)

	Feminism in Czech Republic
		For somebody observing the situation from outside the country, the history of Czech feminism may seem to be limited to the era after the Velvet Revolution and the subsequent implementation of various Western discourses in the sociocultural milieu of the new democracy.
		As the Hussites period has always been considered one of the most important events in Czech history, so, many times, the necessity of education for both sexes was taken for granted as vital for the good of the nation(3).
		By the 19th century, when the Czech lands had been a part of the Austro- Hungarian Empire for almost 300 years (with German as the official language), the Czech language and culture was on the verge of disappearing.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/cz.html (1455 words)

	CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE CZECH LANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Attention will be given to the way in which history is reflected in Czech arts and literature, as arts and literature have often contributed significantly to the political life of the country.
		During that same period, belated interest was shown abroad in the achievements of Czech lyric poetry in the interwar period, and Seifert, its chief surviving representative, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.
		, mainly as a guarantor of the course on Cultural History of the Czech Lands.
	nb.vse.cz /cesp/kurzy/HIST.HTM (1079 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Czech Lands, 1939-1945
		In retaliation, Germans executed the entire male population (16 and elder) of the town of LIDICE; women and children were sent to the concentration camps.
		Nazi policy aimed at the GERMANIFICATION of Czechia; German was to be the language of education, administration and jurisdiction; the Czech language and identity were to be exterminated (thus the name "Bohemia and Moravia").
		Czech pilots, a number of whom had made it to Britain, joined the RAF in defending the island in the BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/cz193945.html (582 words)

	Royalty.nu - Czechoslovak Royalty - History of Slovakia and the Czech Lands, Bohemia and Moravia
		Key moments and themes in the history of the Czech lands from the rise of the Premyslid dynasty in the 9th century to the fall of socialism in 1989.
		A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival by Stanislav Kirschbaum.
		Czech, Moravian and Slovak Fairy Tales by Parker Fillmore, illustrated by Jan Matulka.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Czechoslovak.html (708 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the Czech Lands (Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia), which were a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy until 1918, the first audit institution was the Court Accounting Chamber (Hofrechnungskammer), set up in 1761.
		After the Czechoslovak Republic was founded in 1918, the tradition of this office was continued by the Supreme Accounting and Audit Office in Prague, established in 1919 by the Act on the Establishment and Jurisdiction of the Supreme Audit Office.
		After the Czech Republic became a separate independent state in January 1993, the present Supreme Audit Office was established in July 1993.
	www.nku.cz /pages/en/history.htm (1520 words)

	History of the Czech lands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		History of the Czech lands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Slavs: Czechs and Moravians –; since the 6th century (535?)
		Czechoslovakia (1918 –; 1992): since 1969 the Czech Socialist Republic, since 1990 the Czech Republic
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_the_Czechs (297 words)

	History Syllabi List
		History of the Czech Lands in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Winter 94)
		History of the Czech Lands in the 19th and 20th centuries (with M. Polisenska) (Winter 94)
		History of the Czech Lands in the 19th and 20th centuries (see J. Havranek) (Winter 94)
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/Hist/HIST_LIST.html (1899 words)

	Frantisek Palacky - 29-03-2000 - Radio Prague
		At the time, the Czech National Revival, a movement which aimed to revive the Czech language, culture and history, was in full swing.
		Another source of tensions between Palacky and the other members of the Czech National Revival was the fact that although he himself was not a nobleman, he moved in aristocratic circles.
		Throughout the 1860s and the early 1870s, Palacky continued to work on his history of the Czech Lands, completing first the German version in the 1860s, and then the Czech version, which he finished a few months before his death.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/36682 (943 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (Studies of Nationalities) by Hugh Lecaine Agnew
		While the history is there, and while there is copious scholarly detail and referencing of historical events, the main strength of the text is in illustrating a deep national awareness in literature and the arts.
		The Czechs have long been at the center of political, cultural, and philsophical developments over the course of history but tragically were often passive observers to events in their own land due to being subjects of other nations' empires.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/069105052X?v=glance (1896 words)

	Czech History
		Our extensive Czech History section covers over 1200 years of the history of the Czech lands, starting with the early Slavic settlement around 6th century AD and ending with Czech Republic's entry into the European Union.
		The History of Prague through the Centuries overview will lead you from the founding of the Prague Castle, through the Middle Ages and Prague's Golden Age, to the reign of the Hapsburgs and all the way to Prague's recent past and present.
		Go to the Czech Legends page to learn about the origin of Prague, read the story of the Golem, the famous tale of Horymír and his horse Šemík, and other Prague and Czech legends.
	www.myczechrepublic.com /czech-history (194 words)

	The Czech and Slovak Legacy in the Americas, Lincoln, NE, August 2001
		The Czechs at UNL were always a very active group, and from its Komensky Club, conceived at the end of 1903 and officially established in 1904, rose a generation of Nebraska and U.S. politicians, including the late Senator Roman Hruska.
		Nebraska Czechs have influenced the history of the United States as well as the history of the Czech Lands.
		The ethnic Czechs are very active in genealogical research and many take part in the Czech Elder hostel at the Doane College in Crete.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Conferences/01-8-czl.html (720 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Czech Lands, 1914-1918
		The indifference shown by the Czechs to the war effort was illustrated in JAROSLAV HASEK's novel The adventures of the brave soldier Schwejk.
		In the PITTSBURGH CONVENTION (May 1918), representatives of the Czech and Slovak communities in the United States favour the establishment of a united CZECHOSLOVAKIA with guaranteed autonomy for Slovakia.
		In October 1918 the Austrian rule collapsed; the Czechs and Slovaks supported the establishment of the Czechoslovaks; moves by the German speaking SUDETEN minority (a majority in the fringe regions of Bohemia, Moravia and 'Austrian' Silesia) to join the rump Austrian republic were blocked by the Entente.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/cz191418.html (336 words)

	Naropa University - International Education - Prague - WRI 510 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This course examines the general history of the Czech Lands (historically the Bohemian Lands–i.e.
		Special attention will be paid to the role of literature and authors in the general history of the Czech Lands–"literature in history"–and to the view of Czech history through literature–"history in literature".
		By the end of the course the student will gain insight in medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary history of what is now the Czech Republic; understand the position of Czechs and their state within the European context on a diachronic scale; describe and analyze roots of present-day Czech politics and culture.
	www.naropa.edu /studyabroad/prague/wri684.html (722 words)

	Klement Gottwald - 22-03-2000 - Radio Prague
		It's time now for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and this week Nick Carey takes a look at the life of Czechoslovakia's first Communist president, Klement Gottwald...
		Klement Gottwald is a controversial figure in Czech history.
		During the five years he was president, two hundred and thirty death sentences were handed out, and almost two hundred thousand people were sent to prison and forced labour camps.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/36683 (1572 words)

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