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In 1993, after the split of Czechoslovakia, Prague became the capital city of the new Czech Republic. Prague is capital of two administrative units of Czech Republic – Prague region (Czech: hlavní město Praha) and Central Bohemian Region (Czech: Středočeský kraj).
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1960–1992: 10 kraje, Prague, and (from 1970) Bratislava (capital of Slovakia); these were divided into 109–114 okresy; the kraje were abolished temporarily in Slovakia in 1969–1970 and for many purposes from 1991 in Czechoslovakia; in addition, the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic were established in 1969 ...
It became the capital of an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918. Prague was occupied by Germany during World War II and by the U.S.S.R. and other Warsaw Pact military forces in 1968 ( see Prague Spring).
When the new country of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on Oct. 28, 1918, its leaders were still in exile. Masaryk was chosen as president on November 14, while he was still in the United States; he did not arrive in Prague until December. Beneš, the country’s foreign minister, was in Paris for the upcoming peace conference, as was Karel ...
20th-Century History Onwards. After the First World War resulted in the demise of the empire of Austria-Hungary, a new, independent Czechoslovakia was declared in 1918, with Prague as its capital. By now, many German-speaking people were living here, just as the Second World War came along.
In 1784 Emperor Joseph II. merged the four historical Prague Towns ( the Old Town, New Town, Little Quarter and Hradčany) into one unified Capital City of Prague, which became the core of industrialization of Bohemia and the center of Bohemian national revival.
1347-1378: Charles IV epoch – Prague becomes the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire. 1348: Charles IV founds the New Town and the Charles University, the first university in Central Europe. 1357: Charles IV begins the reconstruction of the main bridge over Vltava (Judith Bridge), which will later become Charles Bridge.
