You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Czech. (September 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like
DeepL or
Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 243 articles in the
main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide
copyright attribution in the
edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an
interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Czech Wikipedia article at [[:cs:Exact name of the Czech article]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated page|cs|Exact name of Czech article}} to the
talk page.
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Slovak. (September 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like
DeepL or
Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide
copyright attribution in the
edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an
interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Slovak Wikipedia article at [[:sk:Exact name of the Slovak article]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated page|sk|Exact name of Slovak article}} to the
talk page.
This article deals with historic administrative divisions of
Czechoslovakia up to 1992, when the country was split into the
Czech Republic and
Slovakia.
1918–1923: different systems based on the former Austrian territories (
Kingdom of Bohemia,
Margraviate of Moravia, and
Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia) and former Hungarian counties in the north (later forming
Slovakia (21 counties) and
Subcarpathian Ruthenia (4 counties)) were reorganized into three provinces (
Czech: země,
Slovak: krajiny – literally "lands") of Bohemia-Moravia-Silesia, 21 counties (župy) of Slovakia, and 4 counties of Subcarpathian Ruthenia (today's
Zakarpattia Oblast in
Ukraine); all provinces and counties were further divided into districts (okresy)
1923–1927: like 1918–1923, except that the above counties were replaced by 6 (grand) counties ((veľ)župy) in Slovakia and 1 (grand) county in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, and the number and borders of districts were changed in these two territories
1928–1938: 4 provinces: Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia; divided into districts
late 1938–March 1939: like 1928–1938, but Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia were promoted to "autonomous lands", while the border regions were ceded to Germany (so-called
Sudetenland) and Hungary (southern parts of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia)
1939–1945:
Bohemia and Moravia became a protectorate of Germany, the remainder of Subcarpathian Ruthenia annexed by Hungary, while Slovakia was
nominally independent
1945–1948: like 1928–1938, except that Subcarpathian Ruthenia became part of the Soviet Union in 1945
1949–1960: 19 regions divided in 270 districts; Czech historical provinces/lands abolished
1960–1992: Ten regions plus Prague (and from 1970 also Bratislava), further divided into over 100 districts. Czech and Slovak Socialist Republics added as a layer above the regions at federalization in 1969.
Since many regions changed significantly after the
Velvet Divorce of 1993, here is list of their original names and current regions they approximately correspond to: