History
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Saxony and Bohemia are affected by an age-long common history and coexistence. Thereby the River Elbe is the natural connection between them. The Elbe Dale and the Bohemian Basin are the historical settlement lines and settlement areas respectively of the region. The Regions of the Ore Mountains were hard to cultivate and in the beginning sparsely populated. The first settlements there began with the immigration of Franconian and Thuringian countrymen. Archeologically discoveries evidenced first contacts between today’s Saxony and Bohemia since the Neolithic.
| About 924 – 925 | Vaclav I. established the first independent Czech feudal state | |
| 929 | foundation of the Castle Meißen, development of the Mark Meißen | |
| 1168 | first discoveries of silver ore near Freital – Beginning of the silver mining | |
| 13th century | Boom years of the Bohemian Kingdome | |
| About 1500 | Saxony starts to be one of the German leading States | |
| 16th century |
nobility increasingly move from Saxony to Bohemia, height of the good economical and cultural contacts between both states |
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| 1851 | Building of the railroad connection Dresden - Pirna - Schöna - DÄ›Ä?Ãn and upturn of the steam navigation on the Elbe | |
| 1860/ 61 | Czech people move to Saxony more and more because of labour deficit in mining | |
| 1918 | Foundation of the Czech Republic | |
| 1939 | Munich Agreement, territories which are predominant inhabited by German will be assigned to Germany | |
| WW 2 | Occupation of the remaining territories of Bohemia and Moravia, development of the „Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren“ | |
| End of WW 2 | expulsion of the German population from the Czech territories and resettlement of the formerly by German settled territories with Czechs | |
| After WW 2 | independent development of the Czech and German territories | |
| 1949 – 1990 | “ordered friendship� between the GDR and the CSSR | |
| From 1972 | Passing of a generous border regulation between the GDR and the CSSR, increase of the cross border tourist traffic | |
| 1990 | German reunification | |
| May 2004 | the Czech Republic joined the European Union | |
| December 2007 | the Czech Republic joined the Schengen Area | |
| August 2008 | commencement of the Saxon administrative reform |
