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15 unusual facts about Baťa


2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt

Déby’s plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad.

Alberto Edjogo-Owono

Edjogo made his Equatorial Guinea national team debut on 6 July 2003, in an 2004 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Morocco in Bata, a 0–1 home loss.

Bata, Equatorial Guinea

Bata, like Malabo, contains some of the country's best hotels including the Hotel Panafrica, overlooking the beach.

Bata, Pazardzhik Province

Anelia Ralenkova - rhythmic gymnast with 4 gold medals from World and European Championships

Ben Manga

Bienvenido "Ben" Manga Ubenga (born 11 February 1974 in Bata) is an Equatoguinean football scout and former player.

Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé

At the Third National Congress of the CPDS, held in Bata on 28–30 January 2005, Bacalé was re-elected to his post on CPDS National Executive Committee as Secretary for International Relations and Cooperation.

Francisco Ascaso

He took part in anarchist insurrections that marked the first years of the Republic, and in 1932 was detained and deported in Bata, on the coast of Río Muni, and then to the Canary Islands.

González Gil-Pazó GP-1

The single seat GP-2 was flown by Lorenzo Richi in March 1936 from Madrid to Bata in what was then Spanish Guinea at an average speed of 187 km/h (116 mph).

Juan Cuyami

His debut came on 11 October 2003 in a 1–0 win against Togo for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers (eventual 1–2 aggregate loss), in Bata.

Lengue language

The Lengue language, also called Molengue, Balengue, Molendji, is a Bantu language of southern Equatorial Guinea, spoken by the Lengue people between Bata and the Gabon border near the coast.

Lengue people

Today Bengas inhabit the coast region of the country's mainland, between Bata and the Gabonese border.

Lino Sima Ekua Avomo

Sima Ekua Avomo attended the Diplomatic School of Madrid, Spain and the Carlos Lwanga National Institute of Secondary Education in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

Telecommunications in Equatorial Guinea

:* International: International communications from Bata and Malabo to African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Trinidad Jiménez

Between 1990 and 1992, Jiménez lived in Equatorial Guinea, working as a Professor-Tutor in Political Law at the National Distance Education University (UNED) and at the Spanish College in Bata.

Víctor Manguire

Víctor Manuel Manguire Ntongono (born 23 July 1989 in Bata), better known as Michi, is an Equatoguinean football midfielder, who plays for Pavía in the Group 4 of the Andalusian First Division (Spain).


Alexandr Hackenschmied

Before emigrating from Czechoslovakia, Hackenschmied worked for the Baťa Film Studio in Zlín, founded by Jan Antonín Baťa in the 1930s who hired young filmmakers and artists to develop modern films, primarily for advertising.

Batanagar

The Bata brand was established on August 24, 1894 in Zlín, then in Austria-Hungary (now in Czech Republic).

HNK Borovo

For that season, Bata brought to their ranks a new coach, the Hungarian Károly Nemes, and players such as Milan Antolković from Građanski Zagreb, Đorđe Lojančić and Nikola Perlić from SK Jugoslavija, Slavko Šurdonja from BSK Belgrade, among others.

John Tusa

He then became general manager of the Bata factory and its associated village in East Tilbury, living in the nearby village of Horndon-on-the-Hill where his son grew up.

Joni Anwar

Anwar started his career by doing television commercials for Ovaltine, Bata, Krissadanakorn and others before he signed a record deal with RS Promotion.

Jozef Lenárt

He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company.

Lualhati Bautista

Lualhati garnered several Palanca Awards (1980, 1983 and 1984) for her novels ‘GAPÔ, Dekada '70 and Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? exposing injustices and chronicling women activism during the Marcos era.

Manohari Singh

In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.

Modibo Adama

Adama then led his forces in a series of strikes on Bata settlements such as Pema, Tepa, and Turuwa.

Pravenec

The new part of Pravenec was founded in the 1940´s shortly after the Baťa woodworking factory was established.

Sa druge strane jastuka

"Bata thought that a French accordion would sound great there. Our friend Mita, a folker, knew to play some French stuff on the accordion. Žika was singing on a partly fictional French ... Then I wrote new lyrics, and Bata and Žika agreed it should be followed by march. And it sounds great, a great act on the concerts. We played on some festival in Toulouse in 1985, and they thought it was interesting."

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.

Tale of Two Brothers

The bull is then sacrificed, and two drops of Bata's blood fall, from which grow two Persea trees.