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-'''Czechoslovakia''' was a country in [[Central Europe]] that existed from October [[1918]], when it declared its independence from the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], until [[1992]] (with a government-in-exile during the [[World War II]] period). On [[January 1]], [[1993]], Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the '''[[Czech Republic]] '''and''' [[Slovakia]]'''.+'''Czechoslovakia''' was a country in [[Central Europe]] that existed from October [[1918]], when it declared its independence from the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], until [[1992]]. Its capital was [[Prague]]. In [[1993]], Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the '''Czech Republic '''and''' Slovakia'''.
== See also== == See also==
*[[Prague underground (culture)]] *[[Prague underground (culture)]]
 +*[[The Plastic People of the Universe]]
 +*[[Czech literature]]
 +*[[Czech surrealism]]
 +*[[Czechoslovak New Wave]]
 +*[[Cinema of the Czech Republic]]
 +
== Film == == Film ==
*[[Czechoslovak New Wave]] *[[Czechoslovak New Wave]]
*''[[Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' *''[[Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]''
 +
 +==Authors and Poets==
 +*[[Jaroslav Hašek]]
 +*[[Bohumil Hrabal]]
 +*[[Franz Kafka]]
 +*[[Oskar Kokoschka]]
 +*[[Milan Kundera]]
 +*[[Karel Teige]]
 +
 +==Composers==
 +*[[Leoš Janáček]]
 +*[[Bedřich Smetana]]
 +
 +==Filmmakers==
 +*[[Věra Chytilová]], film director
 +*[[Miloš Forman]], film director
 +*[[Jaromil Jireš]], film director
 +*[[Jiří Menzel]], film director, actor
 +*[[Karel Reisz]], film director
 +*[[Jan Švankmajer]], film director, animator
 +*[[Jiří Trnka]], film director, animator
 +*[[Karel Zeman]], film director, animator
 +
 +==Models==
 +*[[Eva Herzigová]] (1973)
 +
 +==Painters==
 +*[[František Kupka]]
 +*[[Alfons Mucha]]
 +*[[Toyen]] (Marie Čermínová)
 +
 +==Photographers==
 +*[[Jan Saudek]]
 +
 +==Religion==
 +*[[Jan Hus]], religious thinker and reformer
 +
 +==Other==
 +*[[Giacomo Casanova]], spent his last years as a librarian in [[Duchcov Castle]]
 +
 +==Fictional characters==
 +*[[The Good Soldier Švejk|Josef Švejk]], fictional soldier in WWI, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel ''The Good Soldier Švejk''
 +==See also==
 +*[[MDŽ (International Women's Day)]]
 +*[[Jazz in dissident Czechoslovakia]]
 +
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Czechoslovakia was a country in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. Its capital was Prague. In 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Film

Authors and Poets

Composers

Filmmakers

Models

Painters

Photographers

Religion

  • Jan Hus, religious thinker and reformer

Other

Fictional characters

  • Josef Švejk, fictional soldier in WWI, main character of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk

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