Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)

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Czechoslovak Republic
Československá republika (Czech)
Česko-slovenská republika (Slovak)
Flag of Czechoslovak Republic
The flag of Czechoslovakia, from 1920 to 1938.
Capital
and largest city
Prague
Official languagesCzechoslovak
Common languagesCzechoslovak (Czech · Slovak), German, Hungarian, Polish, Romani, Rusyn, Yiddish
Dominant mode of productionCapitalism


The (First) Czechoslovak Republic was a binational, multi-ethnic bourgeois democratic state in Central Europe. The republic was proclaimed by the Czechoslovak National Council in 1918 following the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary; and ended twenty years later in 1938, when much of Czechoslovakia was forcibly ceded over to Germany, Hungary, and Poland via the Munich Agreement.