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11 unusual facts about Czechoslovakia


Chuck Wayne

Wayne was born Charles Jagelka in New York City on 27 February 1923 to a Czechoslovakian family.

East Tilbury

A sizeable Czech workforce was relocated here, and has merged into the local community after connections were lost with Czechoslovakia after the Second World war.

First Austrian Republic

In 1919, the state of German Austria was dissolved by the Treaty of Saint Germain, which ceded German-populated regions in Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia, German-populated Tyrol to Italy and a portion of southern land to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, or SHS) also known as Yugoslavia.

Gau Bayreuth

The term Bayerische Ostmark was coined after the First World War for the region to refer to the fact that the area now bordered the new Czechoslovakia, a country perceived as hostile to Germany.

Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf

While most of the film was shot on locations in what was, at the time, the country of Czechoslovakia - for example in the ossuary in Mělník, a town in Central Bohemia (which the story incorrectly claims to be in Transylvania), as well as at Barrandov Studios, Prague, some scenes were shot in Los Angeles.

Karel Fortyn

Karel Fortýn (1930–2001) was a Czech (originally Czechoslovakian) physician who invented a breakthrough surgical method in healing cancer called devitalization.

Konami Hyper Soccer

There are twenty-four playable international teams, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, France, Spain, England, Brazil, Poland, Uruguay, Hungary, USSR (now defunct), Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Cameroon, Ireland, Japan, Korea (corresponds to South Korea rather than North Korea), United States, Mexico, Australia, Scotland, Colombia and Yugoslavia.

Revolt of Czechoslovak Legion

Hearing about the creation of an independent Czechoslovakia, legionnaries began to ask why they had to fight in the Russian civil war.

Slovak Figure Skating Championships

Prior to 1994, during the existence of Czechoslovakia, the championships were held at the sub-national level.

The Soulmen

In spring 1968 they toured around Czechoslovakia and Hungary and recorded their only record, an EP Sample Of Happiness/Wake Up/I Wish I Were/Baby Do Not Cry, in March.

Wanda Jablonski

Wanda Jablonski (23 August 1920, in Czechoslovakia - 28 January 1992, in New York City) was a journalist who covered the oil and petroleum industries.


1987 in Denmark

14 October — Denmark qualifies for UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany by defeating Wales in their last game in Group 6 of the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying and thusreby winning the group one point ahead of Czechoslovakia.

1987 Winter Universiade

The 1987 Winter Universiade, the XIII Winter Universiade, took place in Štrbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia.

Aero Vodochody

Aero Vodochody (commonly referred to as Aero; Vodochody is a location) is a Czech (and Czechoslovak) aircraft company, active from 1919, notable for producing the L-29 Delfin, L-39 Albatros, L-59 Super Albatros and the L-159 Alca.

Aimé Lepercq

After the war, he worked as an administrator of industrial properties for the Škoda company in Czechoslovakia.

Alexandru Penciu

His first game was at Brno on 20 April 1955, a 3-0 win over Czechoslovakia in a friendly match.

Armando Martins

Martins made his international debut on 24 January 1926 in Porto against Czechoslovakia.

Bartosiewicz

Peter Bartosiewicz, a former pair skater who competed for Czechoslovakia.

Bentley Beetham

Beetham made numerous expeditions to other ranges in the world, including the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia, Chile, the Drakensberg, the Lofoten islands and Spitsbergen.

Bohumil Müller

Müller reported back to his office and found many were fleeing Czechoslovakia before the Gestapo could arrest them.

Boscoe Holder

He formed a group by the name of Boscoe Holder and his Caribbean Dancers, who toured all over Europe and further afield (Finland, Sweden, Belgium, France, Spain, former Czechoslovakia, Italy, Monte Carlo and Egypt).

Bruno Pezzey

He made his debut for Austria in June 1975 against Czechoslovakia and was a participant at the 1978 FIFA World Cup and 1982 FIFA World Cup.

Czech tramping

The economic successes of the new nation and its many political and social links to the United States (for example the first Czechoslovak President, Tomáš Masaryk, was married to Charlotte Garrigue, who was from a prominent American family and part of the reason for Masaryk's success in persuading Woodrow Wilson to support the inception of Czechoslovakia) meant that Czechs' interest in things American continued in earnest.

Czechoslovakia 1968

In 1972, Senator James L. Buckley (New York) obtained a copy of Czechoslovakia 1968 to show on New York television stations.

Danielle Collobert

After joining the Writers' Union in May 1968, and soon after turning up in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet backlash to the Prague Spring, Collobert traveled almost continuously from 1970 to 1976.

Dwijen Mukhopadhyay

As a member of ‘Indian Cultural Delegation’, he toured Soviet Union and East European countries like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

European Nuclear Disarmament

The Czechoslovakia group exchanged views with and visited Havel and his colleagues in Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia; the Hungary group did the same with György Konrád, Miklos Haraszti and a small group of young peace activists in Hungary; the Poland group the same with Adam Michnik, Jacek Kuron and many younger activists; the East Germany group the same with Bärbel Bohley and others who were later to be the core of Neues Forum.

Foreign relations of Ukraine

Ukraine includes a great deal of territory (some later part of Poland or Czechoslovakia before 1939) that used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ternopil Oblast, most of the Chernivtsi Oblast and the Zakarpattia Oblast.

Francisc Panet

In the early 1930s, he studied at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he met other two Romanian communist activists, Valter Roman and Gabriel Mureşan.

František Kaberle, Sr.

František Kaberle (born 6 August 1951 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia) is the father of Tomáš Kaberle and František Kaberle.

František Tomášek

František Tomášek (30 June 1899, Studénka, Moravia – 4 August 1992, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian.

Garden city movement

In the former Czechoslovakia, all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the Bata Shoes company (Zlín, Svit, Partizánske) were at least influenced by the conception of the Garden city.

Gemer

In 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), most of the county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia, except 7,5% of its area (around Putnok), which became temporarily part of the Hungarian county Borsod-Gömör-Kishont (presently part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén).

Gustav Sturm

On 25 April 1945, while was based at Ruzyně in Czechoslovakia, Sturm attempted to rescue a colleague from a Me 262 that had crash-landed and caught fire.

Helen Lederer

Her father was born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia, in 1926; many of her relatives were murdered in the Holocaust.

Ice Hockey European Championship 1922

The tournament was played between February 14, and February 16, 1922, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and it was won by Czechoslovakia.

Iva Budařová

Iva Budařová (born July 30, 1960 in Duchcov) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.

Jana Boková

Boková was born in Prague, but left Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne.

Jaroslav Dietl

Jaroslav Dietl (22 May 1929, Zagreb – 29 June 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak scenarist of series.

John Flournoy Montgomery

Montgomery was clearly expected to watch over the political intrigues not only in Budapest but, from his central location on the Danube, to monitor the goings-on in Hungary’s neighbors (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia) and other countries in the region as well, including Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and Italy.

John L. Pierce

For his service during World War II, general Pierce was awarded with Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster by the government of the United States and with Order of the White Lion and with War Cross by the government of the Czechoslovakia for his merits during liberation of Western Bohemia.

Josef Špaček

Along with Dubček and other Central Committee members, Špaček was arrested by the Soviets during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (22 August 1968).

Karel David

Karel David (born February 8, 1964 in Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia) is a retired long-distance runner from the Czech Republic, who won the 1991 and 1992 edition of the Vienna Marathon.

L40

Orličan L-40 Meta Sokol, a Czechoslovakia n sports and touring four-seat single-engine low-wing aircraft of the late 1950s

Ludmila Zeman

Born in Czechoslovakia, she graduated from the college of art (Střední uměleckoprůmyslová škola) in Uherské Hradiště.

Maria Stona

In the course of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Red Army her chateau was damaged and subsequently was deteriorating.

Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia

The radio station Voice of America and the BBC World Service also had some audiences in Czechoslovakia, and their broadcasts were subject to only occasional jamming.

Michaela Paštiková

Michaela Paštiková (born 27 March 1980 in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia) is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic.

Mick Leech

His international debut came on 4 May 1969 in a 2–1 defeat to Czechoslovakia in a World Cup qualifier in Dalymount Park.

Milan Chvála

Monograph of northern and central European species of Platypalpus (Diptera, Hybotidae) with data on the occurrence in Czechoslovakia Acta Univ.

Mühlkreis Autobahn

Construction started in the early 1960s, however the plans of a motorway connecting Linz with České Budějovice in Czechoslovakia were never carried out and in 1982 the extension finally discontinued.

Praha Masarykovo nádraží

For much of its existence, the station has been named after the founder of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Seecamp

The Seecamp, like the Czechoslovakian CZ 45 pistol, utilizes a very compact and reliable DAO trigger mechanism.

Škoda 120

The Škoda 105/120/125 were three variations of a rear-engined, rear-wheel drive compact car that was produced by Czechoslovakian car manufacturer AZNP in Mladá Boleslav between 1976 and 1990; engine sizes were 1.05 and 1.2 liters respectively.

Stefan Lux

Stefan Lux (November 11, 1888 Malacky – July 3, 1936 Geneva) was a Slovak Jewish journalist, and a Czechoslovak citizen, who committed suicide in the general assembly of the League of Nations during its session on July 3, 1936.

Svit

It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers.

The Arm Behind the Army

The film briefly explains how dissention among Austrian and Czech management and labor led to the ruin of both, and how French factories were left idle while France fell.

Vienna Volksoper

In 1987, the opera house was used for a scene set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia), for the James Bond film The Living Daylights, where Timothy Dalton made his debut as Bond near the very beginning of the film, where he first spotted the key female character Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo).

Zdenka Cecília Schelingová

Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová (December 24, 1916 – July 31, 1955), was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.