Czechoslovakia (cze)

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia ranks 669th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Santa Barbara, California, Saint-Étienne, and Yaroslavl. Memorable people born in Czechoslovakia include Josef Masopust, Jan Kodeš, and Vasyl Durdynets. Memorable people who died in Czechoslovakia include Jaroslav Seifert, Jan Werich, and Josef Silný. Czechoslovakia has been the birth place of many tennis players, and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players, and writers. Czechoslovakia is located in Czechia.

Czechoslovakia was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to Hungary and Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš formed a government-in-exile and sought recognition from the Allies. Read more on Wikipedia