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Czech Republic

Czech Republic. AIESEC Country Presentation . Czech Republic Česká republika. So where to look for Czech Republic?. HEY, it's just in the of Europe. And who lives next door?.

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Czech Republic

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  1. Czech Republic AIESEC Country Presentation

  2. Czech RepublicČeská republika So where to look for Czech Republic? HEY, it's just in the of Europe... And who lives next door? Many many Also a lot of Some And our Slovak Germans :-) Polish guys Austrians “brothers”

  3. Czech Republic Česká republika Some basic facts AREA: 78 866 km2 (five times smaller than Germany) POPULATION: approx. 10 million CAPITAL: Praha (Prague) – 1.2 million inhabitans HIGHEST MOUNTAIN: Sněžka, 1602 m GDP per capita: 18 100 USD (Germany: 29 100 USD) CURRENCY: Kč – Czech Koruna (1€ = 28 Kč) Member of the EU since 1 May 2004

  4. Czech Republic Česká republika Division Two historical lands: Bohemia (Čechy) and Moravia (Morava)... ...and 14 administrative regions

  5. Czech Republic Česká republika Our History in Short

  6. Czech Republic Česká republika Czechoslovakia 1918 Independent Czechoslovak state founded 1939 – 1945 Nazi occupation (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, Slovakia is a separated state) 1945 – 1948 After-war reconstruction, Czechoslovakia re-established 1948 Communists take over 1968 Prague Spring, Soviet occupation 1989 Velvet Revolution, Communism is over 1993 Czechoslovakia splits up into Czech Republic and Slovakia March 1999 Czech Republic joins NATO May 2004 Czech Republic joins the European Union

  7. Czech Republic Česká republika Some Famous People

  8. Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame - Science Otto Wichterle inventor of contact lenses Jaroslav Heyrovský Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1959 (for polarography) Jan Janský discovered blood groups Johann Gregor Mendel “father of genetics”

  9. Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Culture Antonín Dvořák Bedřich Smetanacomposer composer Miloš Forman director Alfons Mucha Franz Kafkapainter writer Karel (the) Gottpopsinger

  10. Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Sport Dominik Hašek Jaromír Jágr ice-hockey, goalkeeper ice-hockey Pavel Nedvěd Roman Šebrle football decathlon

  11. Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Politics Madeleine Albright former US Secretary of State Václav Havel our prezident 1990-2003 also writer Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk the first prezident of Czechoslovakia

  12. Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Others Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) philosopher and teacher Sigmund Freud psychoanalyst Tomáš Baťa businessman

  13. Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Others Eva Herzigová top model Dolly Buster porn star

  14. Czech Republic Česká republika What Are Czechs Good At?

  15. Czech Republic Česká republika Well, we are definitely good in ice-hockey! 1996 – 2006: 6x World Champions, 1x Second, 1x Third Gold Medal at Olympic Games in Nagano '98 Bronze Medal at Olympic Games in Torino '06

  16. Czech Republic Česká republika Everybody knows Czech beer is the best! We are also “best” in drinking it - by average, every Czech person drinks 160 litres of beer a year

  17. Czech Republic Česká republika We have got long tradition in making “big toys” Trains... ...trams Škoda cars... ...Tatra trucks ...etc

  18. Czech Republic Česká republika Some other well known products CRYSTAL GLASS BECHEROVKA and other alcohol drinks SEMTEX

  19. Czech Republic Česká republika Maybe you know some of our cartoons for children... ...and fairy-tales

  20. Czech Republic Česká republika And Now a Bit of Sightseeing!

  21. Czech Republic Česká republika Praha (Prague) Old Prague protected by UNESCO, the largest castle complex in the world

  22. Czech Republic Česká republika Brno Second biggest city, capital of Moravia

  23. Czech Republic Česká republika Olomouc A beautiful city in Moravia

  24. Czech Republic Česká republika Pardubice The city of czech traditional gingerbread

  25. Czech Republic Česká republika Plzeň (Pilsen) The beer city...

  26. Czech Republic Česká republika České Budějovice (Budweis) ...and another one

  27. Czech Republic Česká republika Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) Famous spa town

  28. Czech Republic Česká republika Ostrava Industrial city in northern Moravia

  29. Czech Republic Česká republika Zlín City, where Thomas Baťa was born

  30. Czech Republic Česká republika Karlštejn Castle Built in 1355

  31. Czech Republic Česká republika Hluboká Chateau

  32. Czech Republic Česká republika Karviná

  33. Czech Republic Česká republika And That's All About Czechs, Folks!  Come to experience it

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