Czechoslovakia (cze)

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia ranks 865th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ostrava, Jönköping, and Macon, Georgia. Memorable people born in Czechoslovakia include Josef Masopust, Jan Kodeš, and Adolf Scherer. Memorable people who died in Czechoslovakia include Jaroslav Seifert, František Svoboda, and Josef Košťálek. Czechoslovakia has been the birth place of many soccer players and tennis players and the death place of many soccer players and writers. Czechoslovakia is located in Czechia.

Czechoslovakia was a landlocked state 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