Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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Czechoslovakia between 1968 (Constitutional Law of Federation) and 1989 (Velvet Revolution) | |
| Date | 17 July 1992 – 31 December 1992 (5 months and 2 weeks) |
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The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the self-determined partition of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic (also known as Czechia) and Slovakia. Both mirrored the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic, which had been created in 1969 as the constituent states of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic until the end of 1989.
It is sometimes known as the Velvet Divorce, a reference to the bloodless Velvet Revolution of 1989, which had led to the end of the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.