The Czech Republic is a city.
Bohemia . In 1990 , the name was changed to the Czech Republic , which become a separate state in 1993 with the dissolution of Czechoslovakia . Czech Republic . The Czech state was formed in the late 9th century as the Duchy of Bohemia under the Great Moravian Empire . Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia [ ˌtʃɛkoʊsloʊˈvækiə , _ - kə - , _ - slə - , _ - ˈvɑː - ] ( Czech and Československo , Česko-Slovensko ) was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 , when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire , until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993 .