Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech and , Česko-Slovensko) was a country in Central Europe created in 1918, as Czecho-Slovakia (until 1920), when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany. 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 f

.cs was for several years the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Czechoslovakia. However, the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, and the two new countries were soon assigned their own ccTLDs: .cz and .sk respectively. The use of .cs was gradually phased out, and the ccTLD was deleted some time around January 1995.

1990-1993 federal republic in Central/Eastern Europe

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hotel building in Prague, Czech Republic

thumb|Картинка000 The Dirkon is a paper camera kit that was first published in 1979 in the Communist Czechoslovak magazine ABC mladých techniků a přírodovědců ('ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists'). The pattern was created by Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolár, and Richard Vyškovský.

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