Editing History of the Czech lands (section)

====Austria-Hungary====
{{further|History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1867–1918)}}
[[File:Národní divadlo z ostrova 1.jpg|thumb|272x272px|The [[National Theatre (Prague)|National Theater]] from 1881]]
The newly formed [[Real union]] of [[Austria-Hungary]] lasted for the next half-a-century. The policies suppressing the National Revival in the Czech lands under the Austrian government continued, as well as the suppression of the [[Ľudovít Štúr#Slovak national movement|Slovak National Revival]] under the Hungarian government. The end of the 19th century also was a time of a demographic boom and a rapid urbanization.<ref>Pánek 2009, p. 351</ref> Population in centers of industry doubled or tripled within a few decades. At the start of the 20th century, Austria's unilateral annexation of Bosnia in 1908 caused the [[Bosnian Crisis]] and prompted the eventual assassination of [[Franz Ferdinand|Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]], sparking the [[World War I]] in 1914. Many of the Czech nationalists saw the war as an opportunity for gaining full independence from the Austria-Hungary. Desertion among the Czech conscripts was commonplace and [[Czechoslovak Legion]]s were formed to fight for the side of [[Entente Powers]].<ref>Pánek 2009, p. 380</ref> In the [[Cleveland Agreement of 1915]], the Czech and Slovak representatives declared their goal of creating a common state, based on the right of a people to [[self-determination]]. When the World War I ended in 1918, the Kingdom of Bohemia officially ceased to exist and a new democratic republic of [[Czechoslovakia]] took its place.