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Czechoslovakia
[ chek-uh-sluh-vah-kee-uh, -vak-ee-uh ]
noun
- a former republic in central Europe: formed after World War I; comprised Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and part of Silesia: a federal republic 1968–92. 49,383 sq. mi. (127,903 sq. km). : Prague.
Czechoslovakia
/ ˌtʃɛkəʊsləʊˈvækɪə /
noun
- a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993 Czech nameČeskoslovensko See also Czech Republic Slovakia
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- Czech·o·slo·va·ki·an Czech·o-Slo·va·ki·an adjective noun
- non-Czech·o·slo·va·ki·an adjective noun
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Example Sentences
The gymnastics events were contested in Olomouc, in what was then Czechoslovakia.
He represented both Czechoslovakia and the United States, where he became a citizen, in the Chess Olympiads.
Other communist countries that withdrew their films and delegates included East Germany, Cuba, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
The great games (Czechoslovakia—Brazil), the boring games (Uruguay—Israel), and the weird games (Morocco—Bulgaria).
I went for the underdogs, the teams from countries that no longer exist: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, the Soviet Union.
Vaclav Havel made the same observation a decade earlier in Czechoslovakia.
But past aggressions against Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Georgia were plainly Illegal as well.
Emanuel Radl speaks of labor and the Church in Czechoslovakia.
In the chapter on Czechoslovakia I quote a conversation between a Nazi spy and his chief.
The Ostiepki from Czechoslovakia might have been a link of smoked ostrich sausage put up in the skin of its own red neck.
The Czechoslovakia treaty was concluded during the period of the government of Alexander Dubcek before the 1968 invasion.
Poland and Czechoslovakia have many more tanks, and larger percentages of them are modern.
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