Czech and Slovak Federative Republic
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Czech and Slovak Federative Republic | |||||||||||
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1990–1992 | |||||||||||
Motto: "Pravda vítězí / Pravda víťazí" (Czech/Slovak) "Veritas vincit" (Latin) "Truth prevails" (1990–1992) | |||||||||||
Anthem:
President | | ||||||||||
• 1989–1992 | Václav Havel | ||||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||||
• 1989–1992 | Marián Čalfa | ||||||||||
• 1992 | Jan Stráský | ||||||||||
Legislature | Chamber of People | ||||||||||
Historical era | Velvet Revolution • Revolutions of 1989 | ||||||||||
23 April 1990 | |||||||||||
31 December 1992 | |||||||||||
Currency | Czechoslovak koruna | ||||||||||
Calling code | 42 | ||||||||||
Internet TLD | .cs | ||||||||||
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After the Velvet Revolution in late-1989, Czechoslovakia adopted the official short-lived country name Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (Czech: Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika, Slovak: Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika; ČSFR) during the period from 23 April 1990 until 31 December 1992, after which the country was peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
Adoption of the name
Since 1960, Czechoslovakia's official name had been the
Conventional wisdom suggested that the country would resume the name used from 1919 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1960, Czechoslovak Republic (Československá republika). However, Slovak politicians objected that the traditional name subsumed Slovakia's equal status in the federal state too much. The first compromise was Constitutional Law 81/1990, which changed the country's name to Czechoslovak Federative Republic (
The name breaks the rules of Czech and Slovak orthography, which do not use capitalization for proper names' second and further words (see above), nor adjectives derived from them. Thus the correct form would be "Česká a slovenská federat... republika." However, "Česká a Slovenská F. R." was adopted in hopes of eliminating any debate about the prestige of Slovakia. While few people were happy with the name, it came into use quickly. Czech and Slovak tensions, of which this was an early sign, soon became manifest in matters of greater immediate importance which made the country's name a comparatively minor issue and at the same time even more impossible to change, so the name remained.
The 1960 Constitution remained in force up to 1 January 1993. It was also heavily amended to remove its Communist character. Work on a permanent constitution was still underway at the time of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
See also
References
- "Constitutional Act No. 81/1990 Coll". Zákony Prolidi. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- "Constitutional Act No. 101/1990 Coll". Zákony Prolidi. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
External links
- (in Czech and Slovak) Transcription of Federal Assembly proceedings when adopting 81/1990.