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15 unusual facts about Czechoslovakia


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.

František Lexa

František Lexa (1876-1960) was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist.

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.

Ivoprop

Zdarsky started the company after carving his own propeller for a homebuilt ultralight trike that he flew from Cold War Czechoslovakia, over the Iron Curtain to Vienna in 1984.

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.

Paul Vinar

Vinar was born in Czechoslovakia, and moved to Geelong in Australia with his mother and four brothers after his father was killed in World War II.

Pavel Petřikov

Father and son Petřikov are famous judokas from Czech republic (Czechoslovakia).

Progres 2

The public presentation of this rock opera was the first audiovisual program of rock music in Czechoslovakia, inspired by the British rock group Pink Floyd.

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 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.

Vietnamese people in Bulgaria

According to an international agreement of 1980, Bulgaria, along with other Comecon members such as East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, accepted Vietnamese guest workers in the country as a relatively cheaper manual labour workforce.

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.


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.

Andrey Yeryomenko

His army occupied many cities and towns in Czechoslovakia, most notably Ostrava.

Anton Ondruš

Anton Ondruš (born 27 March 1950 in Solčany, Czechoslovakia) is a former Slovak football player and considered one of the best defenders of the seventies.

Armando Martins

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

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).

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.

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.

František Kaberle, Sr.

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

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.

Ion Mitilineu

Mitilineu also developed good relations Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia through the Little Entente alliance against potential irredentist threats from Hungary.

Iva Budařová

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

Jack McCartan

His heroics helped the U.S. team defeat such powerful teams as Canada, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia and win the gold medal at Squaw Valley.

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.

John Allison

John Moore Allison (1905–1978), U.S. ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, and Czechoslovakia

Josef Špaček

Following World War II, liberated Czechoslovakia became increasingly subject to political pressure from the Soviet Union.

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 Werner

Karel Werner,(*12.1.1925) an indologist, orientalist, religionist and philosopher of religion, was born in Jemnice in what was then Czechoslovakia(now Czech Republic).

KS 150

The KS 150 reactor was designed in the Soviet Union and built entirely in Czechoslovakia, by Škoda Works.

L101

the Letov L-101, an airliner designed in Czechoslovakia shortly after the end of the Second World War.

L40

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

Leszna Górna

After the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, the western part of the village was incorporated into Czechoslovakia and called Horní Líštná.

Lou Kenton

After the Lidice massacre in Czechoslovakia in 1942, Kenton joined the British "Lidice Shall Live" organisation.

Luboš Kubík

Luboš Kubík (born 20 January 1964 in Vysoké Mýto) is a Czech former professional footballer and former manager of Torquay United, who played sweeper for the Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic national teams, winning 56 caps in total, and a number of notable clubs.

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.

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.

Music for Prague 1968

Music for Prague 1968 is a programmatic work written by Czech-born composer Karel Husa for symphonic band and later transcribed for full orchestra, written shortly after the crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Pál Szinyei Merse

He died on 2 February 1920, just four months and two days before the Trianon treaty, in Jarovnice, which passed the town and all what is now known as Slovakia to the newly formed Czechoslovakia.

Pavel Bergmann

Together with Rudolf Battěk he founded the Independent Socialistic Movement in Czechoslovakia.

Peter Paul Fuchs

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

Pochayiv Lavra

This new St. Job of Pochaev Brotherhood moved from Czechoslovakia to Germany and eventually America, where it joined the Holy Trinity Monastery near Jordanville, New York, with now-Archbishop Vitaly becoming its abbot.

S. B. Komaiko

In 1935, Komaiko was a representative at the 13th World Zionist Congress, which was held in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia.

Sabena Flight 548

Sabena Flight 548, registration OO-SJB, was a Boeing 707 aircraft that crashed en route to Brussels, Belgium, from New York City on February 15, 1961, killing the entire United States Figure Skating team on its way to the 1961 World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Seecamp

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

Šilheřovice

In 1846 Schillersdorf Castle was acquired by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, progenitor of the Rothschild banking family of Austria, while in 1920 the Hlučínsko region, that had formerly belonged to the Prussian Province of Silesia, was adjudicated to Czechoslovakia according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic

From the mid-19th century until the formation of Czechoslovakia, Czech rights with respect to administrative law were safeguarded by the Verwaltungsgerichtshof, or Austrian administrative court, which sat in Vienna.

Vladimír List

His was successful in effort to standardize voltages for transmission lines in Czechoslovakia in 1919 (220/380V for low voltage and 22kV/100kV for high-voltage lines) and power plug sockets.

Vladimír Menšík

Vladimír Menšík (9 October 1929 – 29 May 1988) was a popular Czech actor and entertainer, born in Ivančice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

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.