Kosice - Kosice Košice (German: Kaschau, Hungarian: Kassa) is Slovakia's second largest town lies in eastern Slovakia, in the valley of the river Hornád in the Košice basin, encircled by the spurs of the Čierna Hora mountains to the north and the Volovské vrchy hills to the west. Seat of a region (kraj) or Higher Territorial Unit (VÚC), and of a district (okres). Seat of universities and of the Slovak Constitutional Court. Seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric (since 1995), Evangelic Lutheran bishopric and a Greek Catholic bishopric. The town has a historic center. Characteristics Area 24 382 ha Density of population 991,8/km2 Population 2001: 242,066 Location: 48 43' of northern latitude, 21 25' if eastern longitude Elevation in m above sea level: 208 Medium (851 Maximum, 184.
Janos Bacsanyi - a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars". In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of Kosice (now Slovakia, at that time Hungary), and there, in conjunction with other two Hungarian patriots, edited the Magyar Museum, which was suppressed by the government in 1792. In the following year he was deprived of his clerkship and in 1794, having taken part in the conspiracy of Bishop Martinovich, he was thrown into the state prison of the Spilberk, near Brno, Moravia, where he remained for two years. After his release, he took a considerable share in the "Magyar Minerva", a literary review, and then proceeded to Vienna, where he obtained a post in the bank, and married. In 1809, he translated Napoleon's proclamation to the Hungarians, and,.
History of Ice Hockey in Slovakia - second oldest in Europe after the Spengler Cup in Switzerland) the Tatra Cup in Slovakia got initiated and the first organization of slovak ice hockey was established under the name of Slovenska zupa kanadskeho ladoveho hokeja as a part of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation in what was then Czechoslovakia. The first organized competition was held in 1930 and the first slovak team which managed it to compete with stronger czech teams was HC Tatry in 1936. Another team from Slovakia joined the common competition in the following year. During the course of history of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia many Slovakian players became eligible to play for the national selection of Czechoslovakia. Among those who were to achieve this was Ladislav Trojak a native of Kosice, who left for Prague to.
History of Czechoslovakia - On the same day (March 15), the Carpatho-Ukraine (Ruthenia) declared its independence and was immediately invaded and annexed by Hungary. Finally, on March 23 Hungary invaded and occupied from the Carpatho-Ukraine some further parts of Slovakia (eastern Slovakia). World War II, 1939-45 Main articles: Czechoslovakia: World War II (1939 - 1945), Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for present-day Czech Republic, and The WWII Slovak Republic for Slovakia Benes and other Czechoslovak exiles in London organized a Czechoslovak government-in-exile and negotiated to obtain international recognition for the government and a renunciation of the Munich Agreement and its consequences. In the summer of 1941, the Allies recognized the exiled government. Czechoslovak military units fought alongside the Allied forces.In December 1943, Benes's government concluded a treaty with the Soviets. Benes worked to bring Czechoslovak.
Georg Joachim Rheticus - born in 1514 at Feldkirch, Austria and died in 1574 at Kosice, Hungary. He was a cartographer, navigational and other instrument maker, medical practitioner, teacher. His father had a medical practice in Feldkirch. When he was executed Achilles Gasser took over the practice. Gasser helped Rheticus continue his studies and was a strong support to him. Rheticus took on this name for the former Roman province of Rhaetia and studied at Feldkirch, Zürich and the University of Wittenberg, where he received his M.A. in 1536. Philipp Melanchthon, the theologian and educator, greatly assisted Rheticus in obtaining appointments at several universities. During the time of the Reformation Melanchthon reorganized the whole educational system of Germany, reformed and founded several new universities. In 1536 Rheticus was aided by Melanchthon in receiving the appointment.
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Czechoslovakia: World War II (1939 - 1945) - nationalization of heavy industry and the creation of local people's committees at the war's end. In March 1945, he gave key cabinet positions to Czechoslovak communist exiles in Moscow. End of the War On May 8, 1944, Benes signed an agreement with Soviet leaders stipulating that Czechoslovak territory liberated by Soviet armies would be placed under Czechoslovak civilian control On September 21, Czechoslovak troops formed in the Soviet Union liberated Kalinovo, liberated the first settlement of Czechoslovakia near the Dukla Pass in northeastern Slovakia. Czechoslovakia was liberated mostly by Soviet troops (the Red Army), supported by Czech and Slovak resistance, from the east to the west, only southwestern Bohemia was liberated by other Allied troops from the west. Except for the brutalities of the German occupation in Bohemia and Moravia (after.
Czechoslovakia: 1945 - 1948 - account in any postwar reconstruction. Thus the political and economic organization of postwar Czechoslovakia was largely the result of negotiations between Benes and KSC exiles in Moscow. The so-called Third Republic (1945-1948) came into being in April 1945. Its government, installed at Kosice on April 4 and moved to Prague in May, was a National Front coalition in which three socialist parties--KSC, Czechoslovak Social democratic Party, and Czechoslovak National Socialist Party--predominated. The Slovak Popular Party was banned as collaborationist with the Nazis. Other conservative yet democratic parties, such as the Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, were prevented from resuming activities in the postwar period. Certain acceptable nonsocialist parties were included in the coalition; among them were the Catholic People's Party (in Moravia) and the Slovak Democratic Party. All property belonging.
Czechia: 1198 - 1526 - Czech element at the university. Having only one vote in policy decisions against three for the Germans, the Czechs were outvoted, and the orthodox position was maintained. In subsequent years the Czechs demanded a revision of the university charter, granting more adequate representation to the native, i.e., Czech, faculty. The university controversy was intensified by the vacillating position of the Bohemian king Wenceslas. His insistence at first on favoring Germans in appointments to councillor and other administrative positions had aroused the national sentiments of the Czech nobility and rallied them to Hus's defense. The German faculties had the support of Archbishop Zbynek of Prague and the German clergy. Wenceslas, for political reasons, switched his support from the Germans to Hus and allied with the reformers. On January 18, 1409, Wenceslas issued.
Saris - of Hungary. Today only an informal designation of the corresponding territory. Situated between Levočské vrchy (i.e. Spiš), Kosice and Svidník. Historically a prosperous region, nowadays a rather poor region..
Slovakia - appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister. Slovakia's highest legislative body is the 150-seat unicameral National Council of the Slovak Republic (Národná Rada Slovenskej Republiky). Delegates are elected for 4-year terms on the basis of proportional representation. Slovakia highest judicial body is the Constitutional Court (Ústavný súd), which rules on constitutional issues. The 13 members of this court are appointed by the president from a slate of candidates nominated by parliament. Regions Main article: Regions of Slovakia As for administrative division, Slovakia is subdivided into 8 "kraje" (singular - kraj, usually translated as regions, but actually meaning rather county), each of which is named after their principal city. As for territorial division and the definition of self-governing entities, since 2002, Slovakia is divided into 8 "vyššie územné.
Resource base of Communist Czechoslovakia - Oil and Power Plants Minerals and Mining Czechoslovakia had significant quantities of coal and lignite. Hard coal suitable for extraction was found in the Ostrava coalfields and near Kladno, Plzen (Pilsen), Kosice, and Trutnov. Brown coal and lignite deposits were located around Chomutov and Most, in the Sokolov field near Karlovy Vary, at Teplice, at Ceske Budejovice, and near Modry Kamen and Handlova in Slovakia. Reserves of oil and natural gas were rather small. Iron ore was mined in the Slovenske Rudohorie (Slovak Ore Mountains) and near Prague and Plzen, but reserves have nearly been exhausted in the 1980s. There were also deposits of copper and manganese ores in the Slovenske Rudohorie. Lead and zinc ores were found at Kutna Hora and Pribram in central Bohemia, but in insignificant quantities. *There.
Politics of Slovakia - nationalist parties has declined in the past several years (the SNS is not in the parliament since 2002). In January 1999, Parliament passed a constitutional amendment allowing for direct election of the president. Kosice Mayor Rudolf Schuster was elected president in a May 1999 run-off with former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar and took office on June 15, 1999. Virtually all executive powers of government belong to the prime minister, but the president does serve as commander in chief of the armed forces, can grant pardons, and has the right to return legislation to Parliament. Parliament, however, can override this veto with a simple majority of all 150 members of Parliament. The country's highest appellate forum is the Supreme Court; below that are regional, district, and military courts. In certain cases the.
Population and Ethnic Groups of Czechoslovakia - kilometer. The most densely settled geographic region was Moravia, which had about 154 persons per square kilometer. The figure for Bohemia was about 120, and for Slovakia about 106. The major cities and their estimated populations in January 1986 were as follows: Prague (CZ) 1.2 million; Bratislava (SK) 417,103, Brno (CZ) 385,684, Ostrava (CZ) 327,791, Kosice (SK) 222,175; and Plzen (CZ) 175,244. Czechoslovakia remained essentially a society of small cities and towns, in which about 65 percent of the population were classified as urban dwellers. Czechoslovakia's ethnic composition in 1987 offered a stark contrast to that of the First Republic (see History). No large secessionist German community troubled the society, and Carpatho-Ukraine (poor and overwhelmingly Ukrainian and Hungarian) had been ceded to the Soviet Union following World War II. Czechs and.
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - 1939, after which younger politicians took control. Social democrats and leftist intellectuals, in association with such groups as trade-unions and educational institutions, constituted the Committee of the Petition We Remain Faithful (Peticni vybor Verni zustanme--PVVZ). The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia(KSC) was the fourth resistance group. The KSC had been one of over twenty political parties in the democratic First Republic, but it had never gained sufficient votes to unsettle the domocratic government. After the Munich Agreement the leadership of the KSC moved to Moscow and the party went underground. Until 1943, however, KSC resistance was weak. The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact in 1939 had left the KSC in disarray. But ever faithful to the Soviet line, the KSC began a more active struggle against the Nazis after Germany's attack on the Soviet.
National Front (Czechoslovakia) - economic organization of postwar Czechoslovakia was largely the result of negotiations between Eduard Benes and KSC exiles in Moscow. The Czechs and Slovaks supporting the re-establishment of Czechoslovakia started negotiations on the creation of the concept of a future popular anti-Nazi coalition of parties in December 1943 in Moscow. The concepts of the KSC (having contacts in Moscow) and of the non-Communist parties were different. Finally, the National Front was founded in April 1945, when the first post-war Czechoslovak government came into being in Kosice, while the Soviet Union and Czechoslovak troops were liberating Czechoslovakia .The National Front government was a coalition of 6/8 parties: The four socialist parties—KSC, KSS, Czechoslovak Social democratic Party, and Czechoslovak National Socialist Party—predominated Certain acceptable nonsocialist parties were included in the coalition: the (Catholic) Czechoslovak.
Martina Hingis - 30, 1980) is a professional tennis player from Switzerland. Born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), Hingis lived for a time in Florida but has now returned to Switzerland. She was named after Martina Navratilova, another tennis player of Czechoslovakian origin. At one time ranked #1 in the world for women's singles, she has not played since October 2002 because of chronic foot injuries, and in February 2003 stated that she could not foresee a return to tennis. In her statments, she said that due to her injuries she could not play to a level where she would again be competitive with the best, and was not interested in coping with the pain in her feet to compete at a lesser level. Like many professional tennis players, Hingis started playing at a.
List of colleges and universities starting with T - -- Y -- Z Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknik Arastirma Kurumu Taegu University Taejeon Vocational Junior College Taft College Taipei Medical College Takuma National College of Technology Tallinn Technical University Tama Institute of Management and Information Sciences Tamkang University Tampere Institute of Technology Tampere University of Technology Tamsui Oxford University College Tanjore Medical College Tarleton State University Tatung Institute of Technology Taylor University Teachers College Technical University Kosice Technical University in Zvolen Technical University of British Columbia Technical University of Brno Technical University of Budapest Technical University of Cluj Technical University of Crete (T.U.C) Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Iasi Technical University of Nova Scotia Technical University of Targu Mures Technical University of Timisoara Technikon Southern Africa Technikum Vorarlberg Technikum Winterthur Ingenieurschule Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Technische Fachhochschule Berlin.
List of airports: K - Kaohsiung International Airport, Kaohsiung, Taiwan KHI Karachi International Airport , Karachi, Pakistan KIJ Niigata, Japan KIM Kimberley Airport, Kimberley, South Africa KIN Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, Jamaica KIX Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan KOA Keahole Airport Kailua, Hawaii and Kona, Hawaii, United States KOJ Kagoshima, Japan KPB Zhulyany International Airport, Kiev, Ukraine KRK John Paul II International Airport, Cracow, Poland KSC Kosice, Slovakia KTW Katowice International Airport, Katowice, Poland KUL Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (KUL1 was used by Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, which is now SZB. KUL2 was used by the modern KLIA) KWI Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
