"General informations
 Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic.
 Area : 500 km2
 Prague lies in the middle of Bohemia. It spreads out on both bans of the river Vltava.
 Population : 1,2 million inhabitants
 Number of administrative districts: 22
 The highest point of Prague: peak Teleček near Zličín (399 metre above sea level )
 The lowest point of Prague : canal of Vltava in Suchdol (177 metre above sea level)
 Prague is local tax monumental reservation. Historical centre of Prague is go down as monument of UNESCO.
 Significant companies : Odkolek a.s., Zentiva a.s., Pivovary Staropramen a.s., ČKD Works, Tesla, Motorlet, Orion, etc.
 Prague is very important international transport crossroad (motorway D1, D5, D8, Ruzyně Airport)

History of Prague in Dates
 6th century : Slavs came to the Prague
 9th century : prince Bořivoj flunder a kastle above the Vltava Halley
 973 : the bishopric of Prague was established
 10th century : Vyšehrad was built by Přemyslid
 1316 – 1378 : rule of Charles IV.
 1348 : king Charles IV. founded the New Town of Prague, the Charles University, the Charles Bridge and St. Vitus cathedral
 15th century : Prague was centre of the Hussite movement
 1419 : The first”defenestration” of Prague (the throwing of conservative city councillors out of the windows of the New Town Hall)
 1541 : A great fire destroyed 197 of Prague’s buildings.
 16th century : Prague became the residential seat of Emperor Rudolph II.
 1618 : The second ”defenestration” took place, this time of the imperial governors from the windows of Prague Castle
 8th November 1620 : The Battle of the White Mountain. The decisive defeat of the Estates, it precipitated the Thirty Years’ War.
 21st June 1620 : Twenty-seven Protestant noblemen (leaders of the Bohemian revolt) were executed in the Old Town Square.
 18th century : Prague became centre of the Czech cultural life
 1787 : W. A. Mozart conducted the world premiere of his opera Don Giovanni at the Nostic Theatre.
 1845 : Prague received its first railway.
 1875 : The first horse-drawn tram line was introduced.
 1881 : The National Theatre opened with a production of the opera Libuše by Bedřich Smetana. The theatre burnt down on 12th August of the same year and was only reopened in 1883.
 1891 : Regular service started on the first electric tram line in the city. The Petřín Tower, reminiscent of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, opened for the public.
 28th October 1918 : The independent Czechoslovak Republic was established. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was elected the first president of the republic on 14th November.
 1938 : Under the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia had to surrender its border zones to Germany. Migration of the Czech population away from the border zones resulted in a fast increase in Prague’s population. The number exceeded one million for the first time in the history of the city.
 15th March 1939 : Nazi German armies occupied Czechoslovakia. Hitler made his entrance at Prague Castle.
 1942 : In the Prague was commited assassination on Rainhard Heydrich.
 9th May 1945 : The Red Army reached Prague.
 1968 : The so called Prague Spring movement began, an attempt by Alexander Dubček and his fellow reform-oriented communists to regenerate the communist party.
 21st August 1968 : the process of normalization was began.
 17th November 1989 :A student demonstration on Prague’s Národní street was brutally stifled by the communist riot police. The so called Velvet Revolution began which in a matter of weeks led to the world-known peaceful fall of the communist regime.
 1st January 1993 : After the split of the Czechoslovak Republic, Prague became the capital of the Czech Republic."

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