2026-07-10 12:27 UTC
3/ Czechia 🇨🇿 re-emerged as an independent state along with Slovakia 🇸🇰 in 1992 when the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was peacefully split in two following the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and was just one of many changes in Eastern Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia
It is one of the few peaceful splits of a country in history and stands in stark contrast to the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
#geoweirdness
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2026-07-10 12:27
4/ Historically Czechia 🇨🇿 was sometimes referred to as Bohemia, but in fact Bohemia is just one of three regions of the country. The other large region is Moravia, and there is a smaller Czech Silesia region. Bohemia is the drainage basin of the Elbe river (flowing to the North Sea), Moravia the Danube (Black Sea), the Czech Silesia the Oder (Baltic). https://waterwaymap.org/#map=6.94/50.101/14.778 #geoweirdness
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@R1Rail@pouet.chapril.org 2026-07-10 12:36
@opencage@en.osm.town there was a short period when it was named the "Czeck and Slovak Republic". Between collapse of iron curtain and split of the country