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2 unusual facts about brod


Bojan Petrić

Still young, he moved to Bosanski Brod (name simply as Brod nowadays as part of the Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity within Bosnia), a town on the Bosnian side of the river, where he begin playing with local side FK Polet Bosanski Brod.

Brod

Makedonski Brod, a town and municipality in the Republic of Macedonia


Jeníkov

Golčův Jeníkov, town in Havlíčkův Brod District, Vysočina Region

Josef Špaček

Five weeks before the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Špaček was injured in a head-on automobile collision outside the town of Havličův Brod (along the Bratislava-Prague highway) and briefly hospitalized.

Josip Štadler

He started his education in Slavonski Brod, and continued it in Požega and Zagreb where he attended gymnasium.

Kamenná

Kamenná Lhota, village and municipality in Havlíčkův Brod District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic

Pankrti

They billed themselves The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain (one of their songs has a title Behind iron curtain old brods are pulling the red beet).

Suzanne Renaud

Suzanne Renaud (born 1889 in Lyon, France; died 1964, in Havlíčkův Brod) was a French poet and translator.

The Aeroplanes At Brescia

It describes an airshow in the Italian town Brescia, which Kafka saw with two of his friends (Max and his brother Otto Brod) during their journey to Italy.

The Devil's Wall

The subtext of the plot is a Czech legend of a sheer rockface that overlooks the Vltava river, near the old monastery of Vyšši Brod, where the Devil was said to have halted the building of the monastery by damming the Vltava, which then rose and flooded the site.


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