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Liberec, Czech Republic
Liberec (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 108,000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse River, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Liberec was once home to a thriving textile industry and hence nicknamed the "Manchester of Bohemia". A symbol of the city and the main landmark of the panorama of Liberec is the Ještěd Tower. Since the end of the 19th century, the city has been a conurbation with the suburb of Vratislavice nad Nisou and the neighbouring city of Jablonec nad Nisou. Administrative division Liberec consists of 33 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Liberec I-Staré Město (9,793) *Liberec II-Nové Město (2,979) *Liberec III-Jeřáb (5,657) *Liberec IV-Perštýn (3,117) *Liberec V-Kristiánov (5,312) *Liberec VI-Rochlice (17,268) *Liberec VII-Horní Růžodol (3,430) *Liberec VIII-D ...
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Statutory City (Czech Republic)
In the Czech Republic, a statutory city () is a municipal corporation that has been granted city status by Act of Parliament. It is more prestigious than the simple title ' ("town"), which can be awarded by the Cabinet of the Czech Republic, cabinet and Chair of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, chair of the Chamber of Deputies to a municipality which applies for it. Differences of statutory city Statutory city status is partially ceremonial; the mayor is called ', rather than the ' of other municipalities. Statutory cities are allowed to subdivide into self-governing city boroughs (sg. ') or city parts (sg. ') with their own elected councils; such a statutory city has to issue a statute (') that delimits power to boroughs. However, only seven statutory cities have done so. Cities Brno, Plzeň, Ústí nad Labem and Pardubice are divided into city boroughs, and Liberec has only one city borough with rest of the city being administered directly. Brn ...
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Jablonec Nad Nisou
Jablonec nad Nisou (; ) is a city in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. It is the second-largest city in the region. It is a local centre for education, and is known for its glass and jewelry production, especially for Bijou (jewellery), bijou. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Jablonec nad Nisou consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Jablonec nad Nisou (25,274) *Jablonecké Paseky (2,550) *Kokonín (1,985) *Lukášov (272) *Mšeno nad Nisou (8,428) *Proseč nad Nisou (2,056) *Rýnovice (2,540) *Vrkoslavice (1,381) Etymology The name ''Jablonec'' is of Czech language, Czech origin and means 'little apple tree' (''jablonče'' was a diminutive of the old Czech ''jabloň'' – 'apple tree'), for the village was founded on a place where an apple tree grew. German-speak ...
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Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge
The Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge (; ) is a ridge and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is part of the Western Sudetes. The vast majority lies in the Liberec Region. Geomorphology Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge is a mesoregion of the Western Sudetes, which is part of the Sudetes within the Bohemian Massif. It is a distinctive horst and anticline ridge. It is further subdivided into the microregions of Ještěd Ridge and Kozákov Ridge. Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge is named after the two highest and most dominant mountains of its two parts, Ještěd in the northwest part and Kozákov in the southeast. Ještěd is the highest peak of the ridge and the only peak above 1,000 m. The highest peaks of the ridge are: *Ještěd, *Černý vrch, *Hlubocký hřeben, *Černá hora, *Vápenný, *Rozsocha, *Malý Ještěd, *Dlouhá hora, *Kozákov, Geography The ridge has a narrow elongated shape that extends from northwest to southeast. It is about long, and the width d ...
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Jizera Mountains
Jizera Mountains (), or Izera Mountains (; ), are part of the Western Sudetes on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. The range got its name from the Jizera (river), Jizera River, which rises at the southern base of the Smrk (Jizera), Smrk massif. The Fagus sylvatica, beech forests within the Jizera Mountains were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, because of their outstanding preservation and testimony to the ecological history of Europe (and the beech family specifically) since the Last Glacial Period. Geography The range stretches from the Lusatian Mountains (Zittau Mountains) in the northwest to the Krkonoše in the southeast. The Jizera Mountains comprise the sources of the Jizera river, as well as of the Kwisa and the Lusatian Neisse. The major part in the south is formed from granite, in the northern part from gneisses and mica schists, with some areas formed from ...
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Zittau Basin
Zittau (; ; ; ; ; Upper Lusatian dialect: ''Sitte''; ) is the southeasternmost city in the German state of Saxony, and belongs to the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district. Zittau is located in Upper Lusatia, the southern part of Lusatia, on the Mandau and Lusatian Neisse rivers, in the foreland of the Zittau Mountains. The city has a population of around 25,000 and is located directly on the western edge of the Turów Coal Mine, one of the largest artificial holes visible from space, on the other side of the Lusatian Neisse. The ''Großes Zittauer Fastentuch'' (Great Zittau Lenten Cloth) is, along with the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most impressive textile works in Western tradition. It is the third-largest existing Lenten veil. It was made in Zittau in 1472 and is now exhibited in the secularized '' Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz'', that belongs to the Zittau Municipal Museums, where it is kept in the largest museum display case in the world. Geography Zittau sit ...
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Prague
Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Prague metropolitan area, metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Prague is a historical city with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, Czech Gothic architecture, Gothic, Czech Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Czech Baroque architecture, Baroque architecture. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary. The city played major roles in the Bohemian Reformation, Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history a ...
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Ještěd , Letecký Pohled
Ještěd (; ) is the highest mountain of the Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge in the north of the Czech Republic, at . It is the symbol of the city of Liberec. On the summit is the Ještěd Tower restaurant, hotel and television tower, designed by Karel Hubáček, accessible by road or cable car ( Ještěd cable car). The mountain also has a ski resort. From the summit there are views to Germany and Poland. Etymology The name was probably derived from the connection of the Old German words ''ask'' and ''ket'', meaning " ash hill" or "ash forest". The Slavic name was created by gradual distortion. The Czech name for the mountain was first recorded in 1545 as ''Jesstied''. The German form of the name, Jeschken, was first mentioned in 1565. Location Ještěd is the highest mountain of the Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge within the Bohemian Massif. The eastern slopes and the summit lie in the municipal territory of Liberec ( Horní Hanychov part), the western slopes belong to the municipality ...
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Dissimilation
In phonology, particularly within historical linguistics, dissimilation is a phenomenon whereby similar consonants or vowels in a word become less similar or elided. In English, dissimilation is particularly common with liquid consonants such as and when they occur in a sequence. The phenomenon is often credited to '' horror aequi'', the principle that language users avoid repetition of identical linguistic structures. Examples Dropped initial /r/ in /r..r/ sequence (r-deletion) When an sound occurs along with another in the middle of a word in rhotic dialects of English, the most weakly-stressed tends to drop out, as in "" for ''berserk,'' "" for ''surprise,'' "" for ''particular'', and "" for ''governor'' – this does not affect the pronunciation of ''government,'' which has only one , but English ''government'' tends to be pronounced "", dropping out the first ''n''. This phenomenon will also not affect the unstressed syllable in words like ''surfer'' or ''brother'' s ...
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Czech Language
Czech ( ; ), historically known as Bohemian ( ; ), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 12 million people including second language speakers, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German. The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardization of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerged in the early modern period. In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival. The most widely spoken non-standard variety, known as Common Czech, is based on the vernacular of ...
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Statutory City (Czech Republic)
In the Czech Republic, a statutory city () is a municipal corporation that has been granted city status by Act of Parliament. It is more prestigious than the simple title ' ("town"), which can be awarded by the Cabinet of the Czech Republic, cabinet and Chair of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, chair of the Chamber of Deputies to a municipality which applies for it. Differences of statutory city Statutory city status is partially ceremonial; the mayor is called ', rather than the ' of other municipalities. Statutory cities are allowed to subdivide into self-governing city boroughs (sg. ') or city parts (sg. ') with their own elected councils; such a statutory city has to issue a statute (') that delimits power to boroughs. However, only seven statutory cities have done so. Cities Brno, Plzeň, Ústí nad Labem and Pardubice are divided into city boroughs, and Liberec has only one city borough with rest of the city being administered directly. Brn ...
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Šimonovice
Šimonovice () is a municipality and village in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south .... It has about 1,500 inhabitants. Administrative division Šimonovice consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Šimonovice (219) *Minkovice (1,135) *Rašovka (60) History The first written mention Šimonovice is from 1545. Demographics References External links * Villages in Liberec District {{Liberec-geo-stub ...
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Jeřmanice
Jeřmanice () is a municipality and village in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants. Etymology The name is derived from the personal name Herman. It was the ''lokator'' of the village. Geography Jeřmanice is located about south of Liberec. The municipal territory lies on the border between three nature regions: the northwestern part lies in the Jizera Mountains, the southwestern part lies in the Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge, and the eastern part lies in the westermost tip of the Giant Mountains Foothills. The highest point is located near the top of the Javorník mountain at above sea level. History Jeřmanice was founded in 1543. In 1543–1544, 18 houses were built in the village. From 1980 to 1985, Jeřmanice was an administrative part of Dlouhý Most. From 1986 to 1992, it was a part of Liberec under the name Liberec XXXVII-Jeřmanice. In 1993, it became a separate municipality again. Demographics Transport The R35 ...
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