1. What is the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Czechia, CR) is a independent state in Central Europe. The Czech Republic is a pluralist multi-party parliamentary representative democracy, with the President as head of state and Prime Minister as head of government. The Parliament is bicameral, with the Chamber of Deputies (200 members) and the Senate (81 members).

Current state exists from 1st of January 1993 when was former Czechoslovakia dissolved and its constituent states becoming the independent states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The modern Czech history (20th century) is assocciated with both, communism and constitutional monarchy.

The history of Czech nation and Czech Republic is much longer.

Here you can read a brief history of the Czech Republic.


Fig. 1. Wenceslav's Square in Prague during the Velvet Revolution in 1989 (Source: https://vysehradskej.cz/sametova-revoluce/).