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Czechoslovakia
Ceskoslovenska Socialisticka Republika
Last modified: 2003-12-05 by jarig bakker
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![[Flag of Czechoslovakia]](../images/c/cz-sk.gif)
by Mark Sensen
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Description and history
The flag of this design was adopted on 30 march 1920 and used until 1939.
On 9 may 1948 the unitary Czechoslovakian Democratic People's Republic
was proclaimed, on 11 july the Czech-Slovak Socialist Republic,
becoming a federal republic on 1 january 1969. It finally became the Czech
and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990, and was dissolved 1 january
1993 when it was split into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
At all these times it used the same flag, and the Czech Repubic adopted
it as their flag.
Mark Sensen 2 July 1996
The Constitution of 1990 set up the Czech Lands and Slovakia
as two equal nations. Each was to have its own arms, seal, flag and anthem,
and these were laid down in laws of 1990. The flag of the state was u