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Borik
Borik may refer to: * Borik, Banja Luka, a city neighbourhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Borik, Croatia, a village near Mikleuš * Otto Borik (born 1947), Czech-German chess player * Bôrik (Žilina), a city neighbourhood in Slovakia {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Borik
Otakar "Otto" Borik (born 25 September 1947) is a Czech origin German chess International Master (1982). Biography Otto Borik spent his youth in his Czech homeland, which at the time was experiencing the Prague Spring. He came to the West Germany and also took German citizenship. Between 1973 and 1984 he lived in Bochum, where he dominated the local chess scene as a member of chess club ''SG Bochum 31''. In 1974 he took part in the Dortmund Chess Days. In 1973 and 1975 Otto Borik twice won a North Rhine-Westphalia Chess Championship. In 1976 he won West German Blitz Chess Championship. In the same year he took part in West German Chess Championship in Bad Pyrmont and reached 4th place. In 1982 he came in 9th place in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. At the Bochum Grandmaster Tournament in 1981, which Lubomir Kavalek won before Vlastimil Hort - both of whom had also emigrated from Czechoslovakia - Otto Borik came in 5th place (with 8 out of 15) and thus achieved his first International M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borik, Banja Luka
Borik is an urban neighborhood in the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska entity). It was built northeast of the old city center after an earthquake in 1969 when Banjaluka was heavily damaged. Borik was planned for housing of people who lost their homes in an earthquake and it was built in a brutalist architectural style, typical for cities that were developed under an influence of a communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ... system. References {{BanjaLuka-geo-stub Geography of Banja Luka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikleuš
Mikleuš is a village and municipality in Croatia in Virovitica-Podravina County. It has a population of 1,701 ( 2001 census), 86.6% of which are Croats. Other 13.4% are Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Urali .... Municipalities of Croatia Populated places in Virovitica-Podravina County {{ViroviticaPodravina-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |