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Czech ( / tʃɛk /; endonym: čeština [ˈtʃɛʃcɪna] ), historically also known as Bohemian [5] ( / boʊˈhiːmiən, bə -/; [6] Latin: lingua Bohemica ), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. [5] Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of 78,871 square kilometers (30,452 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec . The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under ...
Czech may refer to: Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe. Czech language. Czechs, the people of the area. Czech culture. Czech cuisine. One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'.
Czech-language name. The country is named after the Czechs ( Czech: Češi ), a Slavic tribe residing in central Bohemia that subdued the surrounding tribes in the late 9th century and created the Czech/Bohemian state. The origin of the name of the tribe itself is unknown. According to legend, it comes from their leader Čech, who brought them ...
Early Modern Czech. The period from the 1780s to the 1840s. The abolition of serfdom in 1781 (by Joseph II) caused migration of country inhabitants to towns. It enabled the implementation of the ideas of the Czech national awakeners for the renewal of the Czech language.
Anning, depicted with her dog. Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector and palaeontologist. She made discoveries of Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis, which changed the scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing ( orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and church reformist Jan Hus, the namesake of the Hussite movement, in one of his seminal works, De orthographia bohemica ( On Bohemian ...
