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Prague

Prague, the city in Hlavní Město Praha, Czech Republic

geographical area, settlement, city, town or city, Czechoslovakian kraj, World Heritage Site, NUTS 2 statistical region, populated place, administrative area within a nation above city-level, film location, listed site, landmark, university city

Location: the Czech Republic, Hlavní Město Praha
Location of: ▶ Shirley Temple; Prague Castle; Dancing House; Charles Bridge; Big Sister; …
Czech Airlines; Strahov Stadium; Prague Astronomical Clock; St. Vitus Cathedral; Wenceslas Square; Charles University in Prague; Prague Offensive; Battle of White Mountain; Žižkov Television Tower; Lennon Wall; Civic Democratic Party; Vyšehrad; Old New Synagogue; Old Town Square; National Museum; Malá Strana; Smart Wings; Stadion Eden; Prague Metronome; AXA Arena; Radio Farda; Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; New Town, Prague; Stalin's Monument; Prague uprising; Church of Our Lady in front of Týn; Illusion Softworks; Czech Social Democratic Party; National Theatre; Hradčany; Petřínská rozhledna; Sazka Arena; Vinohrady; Žižkov; Alwil; Prague Zoo; T-Mobile Arena; Old Town; The Hay Harvest; Czech Technical University in Prague; Pankrác Prison; University of Economics, Prague; Prague Estates Theatre; Rudolfinum, Prague; Green Party; Prague State Opera; National Gallery in Prague; Villa Müller; Clementinum; Clementinum; St. George's Basilica, Prague; Telefónica O2 Czech Republic; Vyšehrad cemetery; Project Syndicate; Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party; Battle of Jankov; Wallenstein Palace; CEZ Group; CZ.NIC; Loreta; Prague Stock Exchange; Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; U Fleků; Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely; Smíchov; Vodafone Czech Republic; Municipal House; Stadion Evžena Rošického; Mladá fronta DNES; Prague 1; Zentiva; I. P. Pavlova; Kobylisy Shooting Range; Karlovy Lázně; Československá obchodní banka; ABS Jets; Muzeum; Seznam.cz; Old Jewish Cemetery; Troja; Troja; Jan Palach Square; Academy of Fine Arts in Prague; Prague 6; Prague 4; Prague 5; Lidové noviny; Zbraslav; Prague Conservatory; Prague 2; Unipetrol; Nádraží Holešovice; Prague 3; Jubilee Synagogue; Háje; Náprstek Museum; Spanish Synagogue; FK Viktoria Stadion; Nusle Bridge; Dejvice; Czech University of Agriculture Prague; Karlín; IBA Group; Lapidarium; Freedom Union–Democratic Union; Bertramka; Nusle; Hladová zeď; Grossmann Jet Service; Museum of Communism; Cathedral of Saint Paul and Peter; CESNET; Anglo-American College; Na Julisce; Centauri Production; Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague; Embassy of the United States in Prague; New Jewish Cemetery; Strahov Monastery; Živnostenská banka; Jinonice; National Technical Museum; Prague 15; University of New York, Prague; Prague 11; CERGE-EI; Petrovice; Hotel Crowne Plaza Prague; Komerční banka; Dobra Cajovna; City Tower; Prague 22; Veleslavín; University of Northern Virginia in Prague; Rajská zahrada; New Town Hall; Party of Free Citizens; MTV Czech; ABA Air; Cinema City Czech Republic; Nova Cinema; Charter Air; Prague 21; ANO pro Evropu; Kobylisy; Palladium Shopping Center; Maisel Synagogue; DW Agentura; High Synagogue; Savoia Castle; Party of Democratic Socialism; Hotel Paris; Hotel InterContinental Prague; SDI Media Czech Republic; Villa Müller; DW Agentura s.r.o.; Powder tower; Letňany; St. George's Convent, Prague; Strašnická; Prague-East District; Prosek; Prosek; ASIX s.r.o.; Košíře; Karolinum; Modřany; Anděl; CzechBoys; Správa železniční dopravní cesty; Jewish Town Hall; Josefov; OKsystem; Stalin Monument; Vršovice; Via Foundation; Civic Democratic Party; Synot Tip Arena; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Banking Institute / College of Banking; Banking Institute / College of Banking; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; German Charles-Ferdinand University; Bohemia Interactive Studio; Praha hlavní nádraží; O2 Arena; A&W Business School, Prague; A&W Business School, Prague
Population: 1,251,072; 1,233,211; 1,200,000
Website: http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/home, http://www.praha.eu
Area: 496 square kilometres
Births: ▶ Franz Kafka; Madeleine Albright; Martina Navratilova; Rainer Maria Rilke; Jana Cova; …
Tomáš Rosický; Jan Hus; Václav Havel; Maria Swan; Dolly Buster; Liliane Tiger; Václav Klaus; Bedřich Smetana; Jan Švankmajer; Lucy Lee; Herbert Lom; Caylian Curtis; Charles IV; Jan Hammer; Prince Rupert of the Rhine; Patrik Berger; Tomas Kalnoky; Alena Šeredova; Roman Bednář; Max Wertheimer; Radoslav Kováč; David Černý; Dominica Leoni; Wilhelm Steinitz; Wenceslaus I; Vladimir Kulich; Lída Baarová; Stanislav Grof; Tomáš Necid; Radek Černý; Petr Korda; Karel Schwarzenberg; Alena Šeredová; Hans Kelsen; Jan Kaplický; Anne of Bohemia; Jaroslav Hašek; Jan Pinkava; Wenceslaus; Karl Kautsky; Frantisek Kotzwara; Monika Hájková; Ignaz Moscheles; Petr Ginz; Věra Čáslavská; Jan Saudek; Hana Mandlíková; Franz Werfel; Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein; Max Brod; Jan Masaryk; Bertha von Suttner; David Nykl; Jiří Rosický; Judah Loew ben Bezalel; Charles Fried; Yehuda Bauer; Ivan Mládek; Jan Šimůnek; Bernard Bolzano; Klára Koukalová; Karl von Terzaghi; Barbora Kodetová; Julius Fučík; Gerty Cori; Antonín Panenka; Jaroslav Drobný; Erwin Schulhoff; Alex Baumann; Miroslava Stern; Johanna of Austria; David Popper; Eduard Hanslick; Avital Ronell; Jan Neruda; Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler; Saul Friedländer; Alois Senefelder; Tomáš Hübschman; Janet Malcolm; Agnes of Bohemia; Helena Suková; Marek Suchý; Anton Reicha; Jan Werich; Jiří Menzel; Milena Jesenská; Hans Eppinger; Vera Ralston; Rudolf Friml; Venceslaus II of Bohemia; Vilém Flusser; Karl Deutsch; Ernest Nagel; Ond?ej Sosenka; Murat Saygıner; Wenceslaus III of Bohemia; Milada Horáková; Ferdinand Blumentritt; Martin Jiránek; Linda Vojtova; Julius Fučík; Lucy Love; Zbych Trofimiuk; Wenceslas Hollar; Daniel Pudil; Daniel Landa; Egon Erwin Kisch; Hana Maria Pravda; Francis Lederer; Ivan Kral; Vladimír Špidla; Bonne of Bohemia; Jaroslav Heyrovský; George Klir; Michal Švec; Pavel Kuka; Carl Ferdinand Cori; Petr Beckmann; Arnošt Lustig; Jerome of Prague; Anna of Austria; Alexandr Vondra; Frank Popper; Julius Pokorny; Olga Havlová; Karel Hynek Mácha; Petr Rada; Karel Husa; Miroslav Vitouš; Ivan Klíma; Toyen; Karel Svoboda; Jan Svejnar; Hans Krása; Jana Sterbak; David Rath; Stanislav Gross; Emmy Destinn; Jakob Hlasek; Tomáš Jun; George Pravda; Zdeněk Svěrák; František Plánička; Richard Glazar; Jan Hernych; Helena Vondráčková; Johann Baptist Georg Neruda; Egon Bondy; Lucie Hradecká; Olga Hepnarová; Emil Wolf; Pavel Kohout; Petr Gabriel; Hans Kohn; Michal Viewegh; Jan Hlavac; Otto Kahler; Oldřich Nejedlý; Jiří Barta; Gabriel Max; Dušan Uhrin, Jr.; Jiří Kladrubský; Pavel Bém; Jan Kodeš; Dalibor Vesely; Anna of Foix-Candale; Hugo Bezdek; Emanuel Moravec; Karel Teige; Sigfried Giedion; Petr Kouba; Ivan Moravec; Friedrich Reinitzer; Vladimír Holan; Jan Tříska; Josef Suk; Antonín Kinský; Jiří Novotný; Petr Zelenka; Rudolf Margolius; Walter Susskind; Victor Adler; Cyril Suk; Karol Sidon; Miroslav Táborský; Jan Santini Aichel; Miroslav Votava; Jan Hejda; Felix Weltsch; Leo Perutz; Jan Kalivoda; David Navara; Henry Mayr-Harting; Isaiah Horowitz
Capital of: the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Kingdom of Bohemia
Origin of: ▶ The Plastic People of the Universe, Rudolf Friml, Jig-Ai, Czech Philharmonic, Lykathé, …
The Matadors, The Prostitutes, Clou, Chaozz, Čechomor, Michal David, Asonance, Karel Zich, Ars Rediviva, Kommando Trash, A Banquet, Ladislav Vodička, John Culter, The Sads, wrgha POWU orchestra, Eva Olmerová, Michal Pavlíček, Alexander Goldscheider, Pipes and Pints, Špejbls Helprs, The Tower of Dudes
Mayor: Pavel Bém
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague
Contents: ▶ Czech Airlines, Smart Wings, Travel Service, Alwil, České dráhy, …
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Project Syndicate, CEZ Group, CZ.NIC, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Vodafone Czech Republic, Zentiva, Československá obchodní banka, ABS Jets, Unipetrol, IBA Group, Grossmann Jet Service, CESNET, Centauri Production, Živnostenská banka, Czech On Line, Komerční banka, Dobra Cajovna, Transgas, Charter Air, Skrivanek, Bohemia Interactive Studio, Alta Praha s.r.o.
Established: 1991
Closest Airport, Nearest Settlement of: Ruzyně International Airport
Deaths: ▶ Reinhard Heydrich; Tycho Brahe; Antonín Dvořák; Alfons Mucha; Jan Palach; …
Alexander Dubček; Alexander Dub?ek; Charles IV; Alphonse Mucha; Ferdinand I of Austria; Rudolf II; Emil Zátopek; Kurt Daluege; Ernest Gellner; Hans Kammler; Karl Hermann Frank; Marie Amalie of Austria; Wenceslaus; Bohumil Hrabal; John of Nepomuk; Klement Gottwald; Anna of Bohemia and Hungary; Jan Masaryk; Gerhard von Scharnhorst; Jan Kubiš; Emil Hácha; Jan Evangelista Purkyně; Ludvík Svoboda; Jan Zajíc; Josef Sudek; Jozef Gabčík; Rudolf Slánský; Agnes of Bohemia; Antonín Novotný; Jan Werich; Otto Wichterle; Venceslaus II of Bohemia; Richard Réti; Božena Němcová; Milada Horáková; Gerhard Gentzen; Jacobus Gallus; Karel Zeman; Hans von Aachen; Peter Parler; Petr Eben; František Palacký; Antonín Zápotocký; Ottokar I of Bohemia; Josef Lada; Jan Syrový; Viktor Oliva; Francysk Skaryna; Hans Krebs; Alois Eliáš; Zden?k Burian; František Plánička; Richard Glazar; Jan Kubelík; Vladimír Clementis; Radola Gajda; Vlaho Bukovac; Alois Hába; Ladislas the Posthumous; Jiří Kolář; František Drtikol; Jan Letzel; Jan Mukařovský; Cosmas of Prague; Blanche of Valois; Vítězslav Nezval; Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne; Emanuel Moravec; Karel Teige; Rudolf Jung; Adolf Opálka; Philippe de Monte; Rudolf Margolius; Jan Santini Aichel; Kryštof Harant; Maria Anna of Sardinia; David Gans; Karel Havlíček Borovský; Viliam Široký; Judith of Habsburg; Jaroslav Krejčí; Frederick William, Elector of Hesse; Ladislav Adamec; Jozef Lenárt; Karel Jaromír Erben; Ivan Pulyui; Bedřich Hrozný; Henry Julius; Matthias Braun; Alois Jirásek; Vlasta Burian; Jacobus Sinapius; Martha Dodd; Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen; Josef Jungmann; František Xaver Dušek; Jan Jesenius; Adriaen de Vries; Eduard ?ech; Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin; Karel Kramář; Arnold Pick; Ivan Jandl; Ferdinand Brokoff; Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer; Rudolf Hrušínský; Antonín Puč; Vilém Mathesius; Václav Treitz; František Maxmilián Kaňka; František Tikal; Jiří Grossmann; František Peřina; Jindřich Štyrský; Jan Zrzavý; Andrej Kvašňák; Josef Pfitzner; František Fajtl; Rudolf II; Jan Kot?ra; František Tomášek; Anna von Schweidnitz; Stella Zázvorková; Josef Václav Myslbek; Emil Filla; Oldřich Černík; Jan Marek Marci; Josef Mánes; Vojtěch Jarník; Pavel Jozef Šafárik; Johanna of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia; Tadeáš Hájek; Karl I of Liechtenstein; Alan Levy; Ladislav Fuks; Václav Tomášek; Jan Želivský; Jochem Schindler; Petr Novák; John of Rokycan; Heda Margolius Kovály; Richard Bienert; Count Camillo Marcolini; Karel Treybal; Johannes von Tepl; František Junek; Vojtech Zamarovský; Jaroslav Foglar; Johannes Vodnianus Campanus; Miroslav Filip; Laurent-Benoît Dewez; František Vláčil; Eva Bosáková; Max Švabinský; Antonín Švehla; Vincenc Strouhal; Miloslav Kabeláč; Josef Skupa; Eduard Bass; Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky; Lenka Reinerová; Matthias of Arras; Aegidius Sadeler; Jan Svatopluk Presl; Luboš Fišer; Alén Diviš; Elmar Klos; Josef Mocker; Nikodim Kondakov; Karel Toman; Robert von Zimmermann; Ladislav Šaloun; Abraham Sarmiento; Jiří Hájek; Jacobus de Kerle; Ivan Olbracht; Jan Šindel; Jacob Regnart; Konrad von Feuchtwangen; Ossi Oswalda; František Veselý; Theodor Vahlen; Joseph Heintz; Miroslav Kárný; Fráňa Šrámek; Karel Domin; Johann Böhm; František Čelakovský; Emil Králíček; Václav Ježek; Julius Zeyer; Alberto Vojt?ch Fri?; Štefan Čambal; Vladimír Boudník; Otto Hemele
Coordinates: 50°04'60"N, 50°04'59"N, 14°24'60"E, 14°24'60"E
End of: ▶ European route E67, European route E48, D11 motorway, D5 motorway, D1 motorway, …
D3 motorway
Residents: ▶ Franz Kafka; Madeleine Albright; Giordano Bruno; Rainer Maria Rilke; Milan Kundera; …
Jana Cova; Tomáš Rosický; Václav Havel; Václav Klaus; Lucy Lee; Herbert Lom; Charles IV; Jan Hammer; Nicole Vaidišová; Max Wertheimer; Wilhelm Steinitz; Lída Baarová; Stanislav Grof; Tomáš Necid; Petr Korda; Adolf Burger; Karel Schwarzenberg; Nicole Vaidišová; Karel Gott; Jan Kaplický; Hadassah Lieberman; Jan Pinkava; Karl Kautsky; Věra Čáslavská; Jan Saudek; Hana Mandlíková; Franz Werfel; Max Brod; Jan Masaryk; Bertha von Suttner; Miloslav Mečíř; Yehuda Bauer; Klára Koukalová; Karl von Terzaghi; Julius Fučík; Gerty Cori; Antonín Panenka; Alex Baumann; Johanna of Austria; David Popper; Eduard Hanslick; Alois Senefelder; Tomáš Hübschman; Janet Malcolm; Helena Suková; Marek Suchý; Jan Werich; Jiří Menzel; Milena Jesenská; Jiří Paroubek; Hans Eppinger; Vera Ralston; Rudolf Friml; Vilém Flusser; Ernest Nagel; Ond?ej Sosenka; Milada Horáková; Ferdinand Blumentritt; Martin Jiránek; Zbych Trofimiuk; Wenceslas Hollar; Egon Erwin Kisch; Ivan Kral; Vladimír Špidla; Jaroslav Heyrovský; Tomáš Verner; Jerome of Prague; Karel Hynek Mácha; Miroslav Vitouš; Ivan Klíma; Toyen; Karel Svoboda; Jan Svejnar; Jana Sterbak; Stanislav Gross; Emmy Destinn; Jakob Hlasek; Alois Eliáš; Zdeněk Svěrák; Jan Hernych; Helena Vondráčková; Lucie Hradecká; Józef Czapski; Emil Wolf; Hans Kohn; Michal Viewegh; Jan Hlavac; Bruno Nettl; Otto Kahler; Gabriel Max; Dušan Uhrin, Jr.; Jan Kodeš; Květa Peschke; Hugo Bezdek; Emanuel Moravec; Karel Teige; Friedrich Reinitzer; Rolf Hammerschmidt; Vladimír Holan; Jan Tříska; Petr Zelenka; Rudolf Margolius; Victor Adler; Jan Hejda; Felix Weltsch; Jan K?esadlo; David Gans; Henry Mayr-Harting; Isaiah Horowitz; Pavel Horváth; Otto Jelinek; Libor Pešek; Zecharias Frankel; Václav Neumann; Josef Wenzel; David Volek; Paul Ritter; ; Ivo Minář; Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer; Will Svitek; Viliam Schrojf; František Maxmilián Kaňka; Alfred Grünfeld; Jiří Grossmann; Cyril Svoboda; Eduard Petiška; Jaromír Weinberger; Jiri Hrdina; Olga Schoberová; Hugo Bergmann; Zuzana Vejvodová; Jáchym Topol; Hana Gartner; Josef Václav Myslbek; Pavel Jozef Šafárik; Tadeáš Hájek; Jiří Mucha; Walter Trier; Karel Koželuh; Ladislav Fuks; Rudolf Charousek; Hana Svobodová; Pavel Vízner; Ferdinand Laub; J. P. Stern; Richard Bienert; Aja Zanova; Milan Šrejber; František Hrubín; Lotta Hitschmanova; Jaroslav Foglar; Erazim Kohák; Antonín Švehla; Eduard Bass; David Kočí; Jakub Klepis; Mordecai Yoffe; Paul Frankl; Lenka Reinerová; Petr Vop?nka; Joachim Gaunse; Ladislav Šaloun; Helena Růžičková; František Raboň; Jaroslav Nešetřil; František Veselý; Tomáš Halík; Olbram Zoubek; Karel Zich; Vratislav Brabenec; Tomáš Poštulka; František Běhounek; Miroslav Kárný; Jiří Vaněk; František Skála; Julius Schulhoff; Alberto Vojt?ch Fri?; Jiří Stivín; František Ondříček; Jana Nejedly; Johannes Urzidil; Olga Fikotová; Ignaz Glaser; Tomáš Zíb; Vlastimil Tusar; Petr Pála; Jan Antonín Losy; Eliška Krásnohorská; Heinrich Grünfeld; Ferdinand Peroutka; Josef Dessauer; Theodor von Oppolzer; Siegfried Kapper; Michaela Paštiková
Alumni: Otakar Sedloň
Class: ▶ settlement, city, town or city, Czechoslovakian kraj, World Heritage Site, …
NUTS 2 statistical region, populated place, administrative area within a nation above city-level, film location, university city, landmark, listed site, geographical area
Featured in: ▶ Casino Royale, Chasing Liberty, Slaughterhouse-Five, Ecstasy, Shameless, …
Roman's Holiday 2, Prague Buddies 2, Prague Buddies 2
Theme of: The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Gns Unique Feature Identifier: "-553173"
Founded here: ▶ Alwil, České dráhy, Dobra Cajovna, Praga, Praga, …
Alta Praha s.r.o.
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000002f76e"
Related Websites: ▶ http://www.sightseebyspace.com/view_link.php?txt_link_autoid=499, http://wikidi.com/view/prague, http://www.prague-information.eu, http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/home, http://www.sozo.sk/phprs/view.php?&cisloclanku=2007040168, …
http://www.pis.cz/en, http://www.prague-city.cz, http://www.praha.eu, http://wikitravel.org/en/Prague, http://www.cityofprague.cz
Visited by: ▶ Ludwig van Beethoven, Joan Baez, Johannes Kepler, Reinhard Heydrich, Robert Schumann, …
Jan Hus, Alexander Dub?ek, Ernest Gellner, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Abraham Lederer
Open Calais URI: http://d.opencalais.com/er/geo/city/ralg-geo1/d5cf3226-08ca-501a-b528-cb51e8f1bec2
Buried: Ferdinand I, Rudolf II
Iso 3166:2 Code: "CZ-PR"
GeoNames URL: http://sws.geonames.org/3067696/
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Prague
Newspapers: Prager Tagblatt
Met Office ID: "55"
Aliases: "at prague", "in prague", "prague"
Time Zone Area: the Central European Time region
Rare Terms: "prague czechoslovakia"; "prague, czechoslovakia"
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/05ywg"
Raised: Karel Hynek Mácha, Elena Lappin

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