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Czech Republic history dates back to the 5th Century A.D when the Slavic tribes shifted their habitat to the areas of present Moravia, Silesia and Bohemia. All through out the 10th to the 16th century the kingdom of Bohemia was ruled by the Premyslide dynasty. Prague, the present capital of the Republic had always been an integral part of the Czech Republic history and was an Imperial capital.
Reformation was initiated by Jan Hus which came to as the Hussite Movement in the Czech Republic History. Ferdinand I, of Hapsburg lineage captured the throne in the year 1526 which led to a Nationalist upsurge resulting in the Thirty Years' War. However, the upsurge was a failure and Czech remained a part of the Austrian Empire until the disintegration of the Empire.
An important land mark in the Czech Republic history was the year 1918 when the state of Czechoslovakia was created. In the year 1939 the German troops captured Czechoslovakia and it was only in 1945 that the former Government of Czechoslovakia regained its position and after the election of 1946 the Communists gained control of the Czechoslovakian government.
Czech Republic history entered a new phase in the year 1989 when the blood less “velvet” Revolution led to the termination of the Communist regime. A leading play writer Václav Havel was then made the President of the country. As the Democratic Governmental system regained its control, there was an emergence of a strong Slovak nationalist movement. The problem of two Republics in one federation continued and finally political leaders of Czech and Slovak decided on creating two separate Nations. Thus the year 1993 went down in the Czech Republic History as the birth day of the new Nation.
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