Czechs celebrate many standard holidays as well as numerous traditional ones throughout the year. There is a long history here of marking the seasons with different festivities and characters.
Here is a list of some of the most famous holidays in Czech Republic.
January 1st – Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State. This holiday marks the date in 1993 when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
April 6th – Easter Monday. This is a Christian holiday celebrated ...
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While speaking a Slavic language, the Czechs have been partly to western European political, economic, and social trends.
Family in the Czech ...
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Northern Moravia includes Silesia, a historical region that lies mostly in southwestern Poland. The Silesians of the Czech Republic tend to maintain ...
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Abundant usage of so-called diacritical marks is characteristic for Czech, i.e. hooks over certain letters and accents to indicate the length of ...
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History
The music was composed by František Škroup a main Revivalist composer of Czech music and especially Czech opera. The lyrics were taken from ...
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Appearance
It consists of a shield divided into 4 squares. The top left and bottom right squares are red, with a 2-tailed, white, crowned lion. The lion is the symbol of Bohemia and signifies power and sovereignty. The top right square is blue and contains a red-and-white checkered, crowned eagle. This is the Moravian eagle, adapted from the Saint Wenceslas eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. The bottom left square is gold and contains a black, crowned eagle, which symbolizes the Silezian region ...
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Czech flag colors
There are several versions that explain origin of the Czech Republic flag colors. One of the legends say that Duke Lech once saw ...
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