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199226 August 1992–1 January 1993 · Brno

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Villa Tugendhat in Brno seen from its garden, where Czech and Slovak leaders agreed to divide the country
Photo: Ben Skála. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

After the 1992 elections the Czech and Slovak leaders, Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar, could not agree on a shared state. On 26 August 1992 they met at Brno's Villa Tugendhat and signed the document dividing the country, and Czechoslovakia split peacefully into two republics on 1 January 1993. The villa, a 1930 modernist house by Mies van der Rohe, is a World Heritage site.

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  1. Site 1: Villa TugendhatMies van der Rohe's 1930 villa, with its onyx wall and garden where the split was signed.Map ↗

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