Sudetes

1880

Despite of this there was at least since the 1880s a trend of depopulation of villages and hamlets which continued into the 20th century.

1918

In 1918 the short-lived rump state of German-Austria proclaimed a Province of the Sudetenland in northern Moravia and Austrian Silesia around the city of Opava (Troppau). The term was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche (Sudeten Germans) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.

1933

In 1918 the short-lived rump state of German-Austria proclaimed a Province of the Sudetenland in northern Moravia and Austrian Silesia around the city of Opava (Troppau). The term was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche (Sudeten Germans) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.

1938

In total the German minority population of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia numbered around 20% of the total national population. Sparking a "Sudeten Crisis", Hitler got his future enemies to concede the Sudetenland with most of the Czechoslovak border fortifications in the 1938 Munich Agreement, leaving the remainder of Czechoslovakia shorn of its natural borders and buffer zone, finally occupied by Germany in March 1939.

1939

In total the German minority population of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia numbered around 20% of the total national population. Sparking a "Sudeten Crisis", Hitler got his future enemies to concede the Sudetenland with most of the Czechoslovak border fortifications in the 1938 Munich Agreement, leaving the remainder of Czechoslovakia shorn of its natural borders and buffer zone, finally occupied by Germany in March 1939.

1980

Coal mining towns like Wałbrzych have re-oriented their economies towards tourism since the decline of mining in the 1980s.

2000

Drilling has revealed the existence of waters at 87 °C at depths of 2000 m.

As of 2000 scholar Krzysztof R.




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