Valašské Klobouky
Valašské Klobouky (; ) is a town in Zlín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,900 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Valašské Klobouky consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Valašské Klobouky (4,084) *Lipina (219) *Mirošov (86) *Smolina (318) Geography Valašské Klobouky is located about southeast of Zlín. It lies on the border of the White Carpathians and the Vizovice Highlands, at the northern tip of the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area. The highest point is the hill Stráně at above sea level. The town is situated in the valley of the Klobučka River. History The first written mention of Klobouky is from 1341. It was part of the Brumov-Bylnice, Brumov estate. In the 14th and 15th centuries, it was an economic centre of the estate. The v ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valašské Klobouky (7)
Valašské Klobouky (; ) is a town in Zlín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,900 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Valašské Klobouky consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Valašské Klobouky (4,084) *Lipina (219) *Mirošov (86) *Smolina (318) Geography Valašské Klobouky is located about southeast of Zlín. It lies on the border of the White Carpathians and the Vizovice Highlands, at the northern tip of the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area. The highest point is the hill Stráně at above sea level. The town is situated in the valley of the Klobučka River. History The first written mention of Klobouky is from 1341. It was part of the Brumov estate. In the 14th and 15th centuries, it was an economic centre of the estate. The village was promoted to a market town in 1356 and to a town in th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Obec
(, ; plural ) is the Czech and Slovak word for a municipality (in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia and abroad). The literal meaning of the word is " commune" or " community". It is the smallest administrative unit that is governed by elected representatives. Cities and towns are also municipalities. Definition The legal definition (according to the Czech code of law with similar definition in the Slovak code of law) is: ''"The municipality is a basic territorial self-governing community of citizens; it forms a territorial unit, which is defined by the boundary of the municipality."'' Every municipality is composed of one or more cadastral areas. Every municipality is also composed of one or more municipal parts (), which are usually town quarters or villages. A municipality can have its own flag and coat of arms. Czech Republic Almost the entire area of the Czech Republic is divided into municipalities, with the only exception being military training areas. The smaller mu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vlachs
Vlach ( ), also Wallachian and many other variants, is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube. Although it has also been used to name present-day Romanians, the term "Vlach" today refers primarily to speakers of the Eastern Romance languages who live south of the Danube, in Albania, Bulgaria, northern Greece, North Macedonia and eastern Serbia. These people include the ethnic groups of the Aromanians, the Megleno-Romanians and, in Serbia, the Timok Romanians. The term also became a synonym in the Balkans for the social category of shepherds, and was also used for non-Romance-speaking peoples, in recent times in the western Balkans derogatively. The term is also used to refer to the ethnographic group of Moravian Vlachs who speak a Slavic language but originate from Romanians, as well as for Morlachs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cities And Towns In The Czech Republic
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gmina Zelów
__NOTOC__ Gmina Zelów is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Zelów, which lies approximately north-west of Bełchatów and south-west of the regional capital Łódź. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 15,321 (of which the population of Zelów amounts to 8,173, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 7,148). Villages Apart from the town of Zelów, Gmina Zelów contains the villages and settlements of Bocianicha, Bujny Księże, Bujny Szlacheckie, Chajczyny, Dąbrowa, Faustynów, Grabostów, Grabostów-Bominy, Grębociny, Ignaców, Jamborek, Janów, Jawor, Karczmy, Karczmy-Kolonia, Kociszew, Kociszew A, Kolonia Grabostów, Kolonia Kociszew, Kolonia Ostoja, Krześlów, Kurów, Kurówek, Kuźnica, Łęki, Łęki-Kolonia, Łobudzice, Łobudzice-Kolonia, Marszywiec, Mauryców, Nowa Wola, Ostoja, Pawłowa, Po ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sister City
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of international links between municipalities akin to what are known as sister cities or twin towns today dating back to the 9th century, the modern concept was first established and adopted worldwide during World War II. Origins of the modern concept Throughout history, many cities have participated in various cultural exchanges and similar activities that might resemble a sister-city or twin-city relationship, but the first officially documented case of such a relationship was a signed agreement between the leaders of the cities of Toledo, Ohio and Toledo, Spain in 1931. However, the modern concept of town twinning appeared during the Second World War. More specifically, it was inspired by the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940, known as t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bedřich Havlíček
Bedřich Havlíček (; 6 October 1922 in Valašské Klobouky – 16 January 1994 in Český Těšín) was a high school teacher, regional historian, ethnographer and homeland worker. Life Havlíček was born born as the eldest son of Frederick Havlíček and Frances, née Bařinková, in a glazier's family which had deep roots in southern Moravian Wallachia. He had two brothers, Ladislav and Zdeněk. In 1941, he graduated from a high school in Vsetín. He intended to study in university, but the Protectorate occupational regime excluded such an opportunity. For a short time, he attended a private business school in Veverská Bítýška due to forced labour order. In 1942–1944, he worked as a surveyor for an Institute in Prague. After war, he enrolled at the Faculty of Arts, where in 1948, he graduated in History and Geography subjects as a school teacher. During his studies, he also attended lectures on museology and ethnography lectures. Especially relationship with prof. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ladislav Mňačko
Ladislav Mňačko (28 January 1919 in Valašské Klobouky – 24 February 1994 in Bratislava) was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist. He was a member of the Slovak partisans, partisan movement in Slovakia during World War II. After the war, he was at first a staunch supporter of the Communist Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and one of its most prominent journalists. However, after becoming disillusioned, he became a vocal critic of the regime, and as a consequence he was persecuted and censored. In the autumn of 1967, he went to Israel in protest against the official position of Czechoslovakia during the Six-Day War, but he returned soon afterwards. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, Soviet-led Warsaw Pact in August 1968, he emigrated again, this time to Austria, where he lived for the next 21 years. In 1968 and 1969, he aided a number of Czechoslovak emigrants who came to Vienna. In January 1990, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josef Valčík
Josef Valčík (; 2 November 1914 – 18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak British-trained soldier and member of the Resistance in German-occupied Czechoslovakia who took part in the firefight during the aftermath of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, code named Operation Anthropoid. Operation Anthropoid SS-''Obergruppenführer'' Heydrich, a high-ranking German Nazi official, was chief of the Reich Security Main Office and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was also ''Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor'' of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942. The Germans were unable to locate the attackers until Karel Čurda of the "Out Distance" sabotage group turned himself in to the Gestapo and gave them the names of the team's local contacts for the reward of one million Reichsmarks. Valčík and the others died after a six-hour firefight with Waffen-SS troops and German police in the Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral. Family 14 members of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jan Matzal Troska
Jan Matzal (3 August 1881 in Valašské Klobouky, Moravia - 3 September 1961 in Prague), known under pen names J. M. Troska and Jan Merfort, was a Czech writer. After his studies Jan Matzal worked in the Škoda Works and other industrial companies. During World War I he was sent to the front because of attempt to cover up a sabotage by factory workers. After the war Matzal lived in Yugoslavia (1921-1926), then returned to Czechoslovakia. He obtained a disability pension at the age of 49 after a lifetime of living with Ménière's disease. During years 1932–1949, he spent his time by writing. Writer He published his first novel, ''Boží soud'' (1935, about village life), under the pen name Jan Merfort. Later (1936 – 1943) he used the pen name J. M. Troska (''Troska'' means ''a ruin'' in Czech, to point out his physical suffering) and published mostly science fiction novels. In these novels Matzal freely ignored rules of physics, used very simple and naïve language, an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Drapery
Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles (Old French , from Late Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , from Late Latin ). It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers. Drape Drape (draping or fabric drape) is the property of different textile materials describing how they fold, fall, or hang over a three-dimensional body. Draping depends upon the fiber characteristics and the flexibility, looseness, and Hand feel, softness of the material. Draped garments follow the form of the human body beneath them. Art In art history, drapery refers to any cloth or textile depicted, which is usually clothing. The schematic depiction of the folds and woven patterns of loose-hanging clothing on the human form, with ancient prototype ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |