| Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karlovy Vary International Film Festival () is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. Because of its success in the past few years the Karlovy Vary festival has become one of the most significant film events in Central and Eastern Europe. Karlovy_Vary_International_Film_Festival
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| Miloš Forman Jan Tomáš Forman (; born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman ( Miloš_Forman
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| History of the Czech lands The history of the Czech lands includes the following periods Prehistory (700 000 BC Celts (400 BC Boii Germanic tribes (8 BC Marcomanni & Quadi Slavs:Bohemians & Moravians Samo’s realm (623 Moravian principality (late 8th century Great Moravia (833 Bohemian Principality (880s Margravate of Moravia since 1182 Kingdom of Bohemia (1198 Habsburg rule (personal union with Austrian lands & Hungary) Czechoslovakia (1918 Czech Republic (since 1993) History_of_the_Czech_lands
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| Olomouc Olomouc (; local Haná dialect Olomóc or Holomóc, German Olmütz, Polish Ołomuniec, Latin Eburum or Olomucium) is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis of Moravia. Olomouc
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| Brno Brno (IPA:city in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1243, although the area had been settled since the 5th century. Today Brno has 403,304 inhabitants and is the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Ombudsman. Brno
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| Václav Havel Václav_Havel
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| Naming conventions (common names)/Archive 1 Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(common_names)/Archive_1
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| List of Czechs partial list of famous Czech, and Czech intelligible people. This list includes people of the Czech nationality as well as people having some significant Czech ancestry or association with Czech culture.NoteBiography Stub Factory. This prevents the list from succumbing to a large amount of "red links". List_of_Czechs
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| Velvet Revolution The "Velvet Revolution" () or "Gentle Revolution" () (November 16 December 29 1989) refers to a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government. It is seen as one of the most important of the Revolutions of 1989. Velvet_Revolution
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| České Budějovice České Budějovice (; colloquiallyBudějce; or Böhmisch Budweis, often referred to simply as Budweis in English; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice and of the University of South Bohemia. The town is not to be confused with Moravské Budějovice in Moravia. České_Budějovice
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| Czechs Czechs (, , archaic ) are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, U.S., Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries. They speak the Czech language, which is closely related to the Slovak and Upper Sorbian language.Among the ancestors of the Czechs are ancient Slavic tribes who inhabited the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from the 6th century onwards. Czechs
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| Tourism in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, and in particular the capital Prague, has become one of the major tourist destinations in Europe. Other highly-visited destinations include Karlštejn Castle, Kutná Hora, Český Krumlov, and Lednice. Tourism_in_the_Czech_Republic
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| South Bohemian Region South Bohemian Region () is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia. West part of South Bohemian Region is former Prachens (Prácheňsko), an huge archaic region with distinctive features with its capital, Písek. South_Bohemian_Region
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| Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilová (born October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. 1 women's tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilová in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Steffi Graf. Martina_Navratilova
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| Kde domov můj? Kde domov můj? (in English:Where is my home?) was written by the composer František Škroup and the playwright Josef Kajetán Tyl as a part of the incidental music to the comedy Fidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačka (Fidlovačka, or No Anger and No Brawl). Kde_domov_můj?
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| Jaromír Jágr Jaromír Jágr (pronounced , born February 15, 1972, in Kladno, Central Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a professional ice hockey right winger, who plays for Avangard Omsk in the Kontinental Hockey League. Jágr formerly played in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and most recently the New York Rangers. Jaromír_Jágr
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| Cinema of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic (both as an independent country and as a part of former Czechoslovakia) was a seedbed for many acclaimed film directors. Three Czech/Czechoslovak movies that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film were The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos in 1965, Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) by Jiří Menzel in 1967 and Kolya (Kolja) by Jan Svěrák in 1996. Several others were nominated. Cinema_of_the_Czech_Republic
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| Jiří Menzel Jiří Menzel (born February 23, 1938, Prague) is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm. Some of them are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.He became famous in 1967, when his first feature film Closely Watched Trains (based on the novel by Hrabal) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Jiří_Menzel
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| Music of the Czech Republic Music in the Czech Republic has roots both in high-culture opera and symphony and in the traditional music of Bohemia and Moravia. Cross-pollination and diversity are important aspects of Czech music Music_of_the_Czech_Republic
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| Moravian-Silesian Region Moravian-Silesian Region (), or Moravo-Silesian Region, is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the historical region of Silesia. The region borders the Olomouc Region (to the west) and Zlín Region (to the south). It also borders two other countries - Poland to the north and Slovakia to the east. Moravian-Silesian_Region
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