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| A cafe in Český Krumlov |
HISTORY - The Czech Republic used to be Czechloslovakia.
Before 1918 the Czech Republic had been under the rule of the Habsburg family for 500 years and always part of the Hungarian kingdom. During that rule, the region consisted of Bohemia and Moravia, often called the Czech Lands, in the west, and Slovakia, a part of Hungary, in the east.
- In 1918 it became Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I, following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- From 1928 and 1940, Czechoslovakia was divided into the four "lands" (Czech: "země", Slovak: "krajiny"); Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia.
- In 1992/1993 Czech and Slovakia separated and became 2 separate countries.
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| View of Cesky Krumlov |
MONEY, LANGUAGE AND SPORTS: The Czech crown is the currency, Czech is the language and different from speaking Slovak, and the sport is Ice Hockey.
ODD FACT - There are no highways from Austria that go into the Czech Republic. The only highway from Austria ended at the border and turned into a 1 lane road in the Czech Republic.
THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE ! On our ride from Linz, Austria to Cesky Krumlov, we passed by a vertical stone marker that identified the continental divide. We learned that rainfall north of the marker goes north and south of the marker flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
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| View of Cesky Krumlov |
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| View of Cesky Krumlov |
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