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Brno-Slatina

It neighbours with Černovická terasa – a zone for industrial development where many companies have facilities (such as Honeywell, Daikin and others).


1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup

Real defeated Spartak Brno in the two legged final, after losing the first in Brno 110–99 and winning at Madrid 84–64.

A Vlaicu I

On September 28, 1910, as a part of the Fall military exercises, Vlaicu flew his airplane from Slatina to Piatra Olt carrying a message, an early instance of an airplane being used for military purposes.

Adrian Ursu

Born in Slatina, he graduated from the Literature Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1994, having been expelled from its Journalism Faculty the previous year.

Alexandru Penciu

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

Bendl

Ignaz Bendl (died c.1730), Bohemian painter, sculptor, medalist and ivory engraver, who worked mainly in Vienna and Brno

Bohumír Matal

Bohumír Matal (13 February 1922 Brno – 7 July 1988 Prudká at Doubravník) was a Czech painter, one of the youngest members of Group 42.

Brno chair

The Brno chair was selected by Dan Cruickshank as one of his 80 man-made "treasures" in the 2005 BBC series, Around the World in 80 Treasures.

Brno Exhibition Centre

The Rolling Stones chose the Brno Exhibition Centre for the 2007 A Bigger Bang European Tour.

Četnické humoresky

Četnické humoresky (Policeman's Humoresques) is a Czech crime television series about a police station in the city of Brno.

Dezna

Located in the Dezna River valley about 7 km from Sebiş, it is composed of five villages: Buhani (Bajnokfalva), Dezna, Laz (Déznaláz), Neagra (Kisfeketefalu) and Slatina de Criș (Mikószlatina).

Flying Spaghetti Monster

In July 2013, a member of the Czech Pirate Party from Brno in the Czech Republic was given permission to wear a pasta strainer on his head for the photograph on his official ID card.

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.

Franz Josef Popp

Popp was born in Vienna in 1886 and in 1901 his family moved to Brno where he completed his university entrance qualification at the local grammar school.

German submarine U-209

Brno municipality received as a gift a model of the submarine (photos exist) but the model itself was probably lost after the end of WWII.

Heinrich Blum

Heinrich Blum (name sometimes written in Czechized form Jindřich Blum) (January 16, 1884, in Soběšice, today part of Brno – 1942) was a Czech architect.

History of Styria

The railway brought tourists to alpine lake resorts and mineral springs at Rohitsch (today's Rogaška Slatina) and Bad Gleichenberg, the brine springs of Bad Aussee, and the thermal springs of Tuffer (today's Laško), Neuhaus am Klausenbach and Tobelbad.

House of Kabužić

Bernard (Brno) Vlaho Maroje Dživo Marijan Kabužić, born on 21 April 1863 in Dubrovnik, died on 10 May 1922 in Waltendorf near Graz, Austria, he married Marie Valerie Freiin v. Locatelli, * 4 June 1870 Angoris.

Hugh Iltis

His father, Hugo Iltis, was a teacher at the Brno Gymnasium, a botanist and geneticist, and a vocal opponent of Nazi eugenics.

Irena Kočí

She took her matura exam at the secondary in Moravský Krumlov and continued at an economic secondary school in Brno.

Jan Firbas

Born in Brno, in the Czech Republic, he studied English, German and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.

Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Honorary doctorates have been awarded to the pianist Rudolf Firkušný (a native of Brno), the poet Ludvík Kundera, the playwright Václav Havel and the poet and actor Jiří Suchý, with the most recent going to the Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard.

Jiří Matoušek

Jiří Matoušek, chairman of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Scientific Advisory Board and professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at Masaryk University, Brno

Johann Ignaz Cimbal

He decorated many churches and monasteries for the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God in Brno and Feldberg, working alongside other painters Johann Jablonský and Ignaz Mayer the Elder.

José Manuel Villa Castillo

In 1986 he was one of the selected artists for the XII Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno, held at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Josef Fahringer

He then taught at Brüx from 1907 to 1910, at Brünn from 1910 to 1913 and again at Vienna from 1918 to 1936.

Josef Karlík

Josef Karlík (19 March 1928 in Kroměříž – 30 October 2009 in Brno) was a Czech actor.

Laa an der Thaya

It had remained a sedate county town, when Napoleon marched through in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition; however, Laa's development was decisively promtoted by the opening of a railway connection to Austria's capital Vienna in 1869, a branch line of the Eastern Railway, which further led to Hevlín and Brno (Brünn) in Moravia.

Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart

The new Moravian Library building which was opened in Brno on 2 April 2001 has a stone relief of the Labyrinth on its front wall.

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

The second winner group was won by Nikoly Rudnev (Kharkov, Ukraine), 7 (out of 8) points, followed by Józef Dominik (Cracow, Poland, 6), Max Lange (Berlin, Germany), 5) − not related to Max Lange −, Asch (4½) (Austria), M. Gargulak (Husovice near Brno, Moravia), and Heinrich Wagner (both 4), A.N. Hallgarten (3), K. Pahl (2) (all from Germany), and Anton Olson (½) (Sweden).

Marek Vorel

He currently plays for HC Košice after signing on 23 October until the end of the season from his hometown club Brno.

Oul

The Czech mutual aid, or self-help, movement spread outside of Prague and was also established in the Brno and Liberec areas.

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Peter Paul Fuchs

In 1936 Fuchs was engaged as conductor and repetiteur for the German Theater in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Petra Feriancova

Her work has been exhibited extensively, solo at ISCP (New York, 2011), House of Arts Brno (2012), Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, 2011), Moravian Gallery (Brno, 2008), and within group institutional exhibitions at BWA (Wroclaw, 2011), Sztuki Museum Lodz (2011), Secession (Vienna, 2010), Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Etienne (2008) and many others.

Petra Špalková

Petra Špalková (born 21 February 1975 in Brno) is a Czech actress.

Polák

Jan Polák (born 1981, Brno), a Czech international footballer

Prague 11

The district is split into two parts, mainly from the perspective of pedestrians, by the south-eastern highway to Brno.

Radoslav Večerka

Radoslav Večerka (born April 18, 1928 in Brno) is a Czech linguist, university professor, journalist, editor and literary scholar active in the field of Slavic studies with a focus on paleography, comparative studies of Slavic languages and Slavic history.

RC Bystrc

The club played in the Řečkovice, Pisárky, Tuřany, and Kníničky areas of Brno as well as the town of Šlapanice and the village of Troubsko, before finally managing to secure their present home ground, the Sportovní areá Ondreje Sekory, at Bystrc.

Richárd Erdős

Richárd Erdős (Brno, 18 May 1881 - Frankfurt, 9 June 1912) was a Jewish Hungarian bass opera singer who was father of the American children's author Richard Erdoes.

Šakvice train disaster

A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured.

SANET

International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the ACOnet node in Vienna, the CESNET node in Brno and the PIONIER node in Bielsko-Biała, as well as local links in Bratislava to the points of presence of GÉANT (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2Gbit/s).

Slatina Peak

Named after the Bulgarian settlements of Slatina in Montana, Lovech, Plovdiv, Silistra and Sofia regions (the last one now part of the city of Sofia).

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Vladimir Tomilovsky

They are also part of some private collections around the world: in Irkutsk, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Paris (France), Athens (Greece), Ashkelon, Ashdod (Israel), Zurich (Switzerland), London (UK), Brno (Czech Republic).

Wenceslaus Linck

Born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), he entered the Jesuit order at age 18 and studied at Brno and Prague.


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