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| Prague (/prxc9x91xcbx90xc9xa1/ PRAHG; Czech: Praha [xcbx88praxc9xa6a] (listen); German: Prag; Latin: Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 13th largest city in the European Union[9] and the historical capital of Bohemia. | WIKI |
| [4] The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. | WIKI |
| [10] It was an important city to the Habsburg Monarchy and its Austro-Hungarian Empire. | WIKI |
| The city played major roles in the Bohemian and Protestant Reformation, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. | WIKI |
| The city has more than ten major museums, along with numerous theatres, galleries, cinemas, and other historical exhibits. | WIKI |
| An extensive modern public transportation system connects the city. | WIKI |
| [14] In 2019, the city was ranked as 69th most liveable city in the world by Mercer. | WIKI |
| [15] In the same year, the PICSA Index ranked the city as 13th most liveable city in the world. | WIKI |
| [16] Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination and as of 2017, the city receives more than 8.5xc2xa0million international visitors annually. | WIKI |
| In 2017 Prague was listed as the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, and Istanbul. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Early history 1.2 The era of Charles IV 1.3 Habsburg era 1.4 20th century 1.4.1 First Czechoslovak Republic 1.4.2 Second World War 1.4.3 Cold War 1.5 After the Velvet Revolution 2 Name 3 Geography 3.1 Climate 4 Administration 4.1 Administrative division 4.2 City government 5 Population 6 Culture 6.1 Cuisine 7 Economy 8 Tourism 8.1 Main attractions 8.1.1 Hradxc4x8dany and Lesser Town (Malxc3xa1 Strana) 8.1.2 Old Town (Starxc3xa9 Mxc4x9bsto) and Josefov 8.1.3 New Town (Novxc3xa9 Mxc4x9bsto) 8.1.4 Vinohrady and xc5xbdixc5xbekov 8.1.5 Other places 8.2 Tourism statistics 9 Education 9.1 Public universities 9.2 Public arts academies 9.3 Private universities 9.4 Largest private colleges 9.5 International institutions 10 Science, research and hi-tech centres 11 Transport 11.1 Public transportation 11.1.1 Prague Metro 11.2 Roads 11.3 Rail 11.4 Air 11.5 Cycling 12 Sport 13 International relations 13.1 Twin towns xe2x80x93 sister cities 13.2 Namesakes 14 See also 15 Notes 16 References 17 Further reading 17.1 Culture and society 18 External links | WIKI |
| [18] Jewish chronicler David Solomon Ganz, citing Cyriacus Spangenberg, claimed that the city was founded as Boihaem in c. 1306 BC by an ancient king, Boyya. | WIKI |
| [21][19] Around the area where present-day Prague stands, the 2nd century map drawn by Ptolemaios mentioned a Germanic city called Casurgis. | WIKI |
| Legend says that Libuxc5xa1e came out on a rocky cliff high above the Vltava and prophesied: "I see a great city whose glory will touch the stars." | WIKI |
| [29] The Old New Synagogue of 1270 still stands in the city. | WIKI |
| As King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, he transformed Prague into an imperial capital and it was at that time by the area the third-largest city in Europe (after Rome and Constantinople). | WIKI |
| The city had a mint and was a centre of trade for German and Italian bankers and merchants. | WIKI |
| During the Hussite Wars when the City of Prague was attacked by "Crusader" and mercenary forces, the city militia fought bravely under the Prague Banner. | WIKI |
| Since this city militia flag was in use before 1477 and during the Hussite Wars, it is the oldest still preserved municipal flag of Bohemia. | WIKI |
| In the following two centuries, Prague strengthened its role as a merchant city. | WIKI |
| This was a prosperous period for the city: famous people living there in that age include the astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, the painter Arcimboldo, the alchemists Edward Kelley and John Dee, the poet Elizabeth Jane Weston, and others. | WIKI |
| Ferdinand II of Habsburg was deposed, and his place as King of Bohemia taken by Frederick V, Elector Palatine; however his army was crushed in the Battle of White Mountain (1620) not far from the city. | WIKI |
| The city suffered subsequently during the war under an attack by Electoral Saxony (1631) and during the Battle of Prague (1648). | WIKI |
| In 1689, a great fire devastated Prague, but this spurred a renovation and a rebuilding of the city. | WIKI |
| [45] In 1757 the Prussian bombardment[45] destroyed more than one quarter of the city and heavily damaged St. Vitus Cathedral. | WIKI |
| Many rich merchants and nobles enhanced the city with a host of palaces, churches and gardens full of art and music, creating a Baroque city renowned throughout the world to this day. | WIKI |
| Prague had a German-speaking majority in 1848, but by 1880 the number of German speakers had decreased to 14% (42,000), and by 1910 to 6.7% (37,000), due to a massive increase of the city's overall population caused by the influx of Czechs from the rest of Bohemia and Moravia and also due to return of social status importance of the Czech language. | WIKI |
| For most of its history, Prague had been a multi-ethnic city[46] with important Czech, German and (mostly native German-speaking) Jewish populations. | WIKI |
| At daybreak on 9 May, the 3rd Shock Army of the Red Army took the city almost unopposed. | WIKI |
| Prague was a city in the territory of military and political control of the Soviet Union (see Iron Curtain). | WIKI |
| The 4th Czechoslovak Writers' Congress held in the city in June 1967 took a strong position against the regime. | WIKI |
| This spurred the new secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Alexander Dubxc4x8dek, to proclaim a new deal in his city's and country's life, starting the short-lived season of the "socialism with a human face". | WIKI |
| Prague launched a bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics,[53] but failed to make the candidate city shortlist. | WIKI |
| In June 2009, as the result of financial pressures from the global recession, Prague's officials also chose to cancel the city's planned bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. | WIKI |
| The Czech name Praha is derived from an old Slavic word, prxc3xa1h, which means "ford" or "rapid", referring to the city's origin at a crossing point of the Vltava river. | WIKI |
| She is said to have ordered the city "to be built where a man hews a threshold of his house". | WIKI |
| At that time, the castle was surrounded by forests, covering the nine hills of the future cityxc2xa0xe2x80x93 the Old Town on the opposite side of the river, as well as the Lesser Town beneath the existing castle, appeared only later. | WIKI |
| The English spelling of the city's name is borrowed from French. | WIKI |
| In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was pronounced in English to rhyme with "vague": it was so pronounced by Lady Diana Cooper (born 1892) on Desert Island Discs in 1969,[57] and it is written to rhyme with "vague" in a verse of The Beleaguered City by Longfellow (1839) and also in the limerick There was an Old Lady of Prague by Edward Lear (1846). | WIKI |
| [58] Nicknames for Prague have also included: the Golden City, the Mother of Cities and the Heart of Europe. | WIKI |
| Since then, the boundaries of many urban districts, administrative districts and city districts are independent of the boundaries of cadastral territories and some cadastral territories are thus divided into administrative and self-governing parts of the city. | WIKI |
| City government[edit] | WIKI |
| Prague is automously administered by the Prague City Assembly, which is elected through municipal elections and consists of 55 to 70 members. | WIKI |
| Executive body of Prague, elected by the Assembly is a Prague City Council. | WIKI |
| According to the 2011 census, about 14% of the city inhabitants were born outside the Czech Republic. | WIKI |
| [71] However, in 2011, 64.8 per cent of the city's population self-identified themselves as Czechs, which is higher than the national average. | WIKI |
| Even though official population of Prague hovers around 1.3 million, the real number of people in the city is much higher due to only 65% of its residents being marked as permanently living in the city,[72] these data were taken from mobile phone movements around the city, and bring total population of Prague to about 1.9xe2x80x932 million, and with additional 300,000 to 400,000 people coming to the city for work, education or shopping, on weekdays there are more than 2 million people in the city. | WIKI |
| Foreign residents in the city (2018)[76] Nationality Population (incl. | WIKI |
| The city is traditionally one of the cultural centres of Europe, hosting many cultural events. | WIKI |
| The city has many world-class museums, including the National Museum (Nxc3xa1rodnxc3xad muzeum), the Museum of the Capital City of Prague, the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Alfons Mucha Museum, the African-Prague Museum, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Nxc3xa1prstek Museum (Nxc3xa1prstkovo Muzeum), the Josef Sudek Gallery and The Josef Sudek Studio, the National Library and the National Gallery, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic. | WIKI |
| There are hundreds of concert halls, galleries, cinemas and music clubs in the city. | WIKI |
| The city also hosts the Prague Writers' Festival, the Prague Folklore Days, Prague Advent Choral Meeting the Summer Shakespeare Festival,[78] the Prague Fringe Festival, the World Roma Festival, as well as the hundreds of Vernissages and fashion shows. | WIKI |
| Also, the romantic music video "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" by Kanye West was shot in the city, and features shots of the Charles Bridge and the Astronomical Clock, among other landmarks. | WIKI |
| The city was also the setting for the film Dungeons and Dragons in 2000. | WIKI |
| Many Indian films have also been filmed in the city including Yuvraaj, Drona and Rockstar. | WIKI |
| With the growth of low-cost airlines in Europe, Prague has become a weekend city destination allowing tourists to visit its museums and cultural sites as well as try its Czech beers and cuisine. | WIKI |
| The city has many buildings by renowned architects, including Adolf Loos (Villa Mxc3xbcller), Frank O. Gehry (Dancing House) and Jean Nouvel (Golden Angel). | WIKI |
| )[82][83] Since 1990, the city's economic structure has shifted from industrial to service-oriented. | WIKI |
| As of March 2010, 148,035 foreign workers were reported to be living in the city making up about 18 per cent of the workforce, up from 131,132 in 2008. | WIKI |
| [84] Approximately one-fifth of all investment in the Czech Republic takes place in the city. | WIKI |
| Tourism is a significant part of the city's economy | WIKI |
| The city offers approximately 73,000 beds in accommodation facilities, most of which were built after 1990, including almost 51,000 beds in hotels and boarding houses. | WIKI |
| From the late 1990s to late 2000s, the city was a common filming location for international productions such as Hollywood and Bollywood motion pictures. | WIKI |
| The modern economy of Prague is largely service and export-based and, in a 2010 survey, the city was named the best city in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for business. | WIKI |
| [86] The city was named as a top-tier nexus city for innovation across multiple sectors of the global innovation economy, placing 29th globally out of 289 cities, ahead of Brussels and Helsinki for innovation in 2010 in 2thinknow annual analysts Innovation Cities Index. | WIKI |
| [14] Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination, and the city receives more than 8.4xc2xa0million international visitors annually, as of 2017[update]. | WIKI |
| The Astronomical Clock (Orloj) on Old Town City Hall The Gothic Church of Our Lady before Txc3xbdn (Kostel Matky Boxc5xbexc3xad pxc5x99ed Txc3xbdnem) from the 14th century with 80 m high towers Stone Bell House The vaulted Gothic Old New Synagogue (Staronovxc3xa1 Synagoga) of 1270 Old Jewish Cemetery Powder Tower (Praxc5xa1nxc3xa1 brxc3xa1na), a Gothic tower of the old city gates Spanish Synagogue with its elaborate interior decoration Old Town Square (Staromxc4x9bstskxc3xa9 nxc3xa1mxc4x9bstxc3xad) with gothic and baroque architectural styles The art nouveau Municipal House, a major civic landmark and concert hall known for its Art Nouveau architectural style and political history in the Czech Republic. | WIKI |
| Vyxc5xa1ehrad Castle with Basilica of St Peter and St Paul, Vyxc5xa1ehrad cemetery and Prague oldest Rotunda of St. Martin The Prague Metronome at Letnxc3xa1 Park, a giant, functional metronome that looms over the city Prague Zoo in Troja, selected as the 7th best zoo in the world by Forbes magazine in 2007[98] and the 4th best by TripAdvisor in 2015[99] Industrial Palace (Prxc5xafmyslovxc3xbd palxc3xa1c), Kxc5x99ixc5xbexc3xadk's Light fountain, funfair Lunapark and Sea World Aquarium in Vxc3xbdstavixc5xa1txc4x9b compound in Holexc5xa1ovice Letohrxc3xa1dek Hvxc4x9bzda (Star Villa) in Liboc, a renaissance villa in the shape of a six-pointed star surrounded by a game reserve National Gallery in Prague with large collection of Czech and international paintings and sculptures by artists such as Mucha, Kupka, Picasso, Monet and Van Gogh Opera performances in National Theatre xe2x80x93 unlike drama, all opera performances run with English subtitles. | WIKI |
| Nine public universities and thirty six private universities are located in the city, including:[101] | WIKI |
| All services (metro, tramways, city buses, funiculars and ferries) have a common ticketing system that operates on a proof-of-payment system. | WIKI |
| The Metro has three major lines extending throughout the city: A (green), B (yellow) and C (red). | WIKI |
| A fourth Metro line D is planned, which would connect the city centre to southern parts of the city (as of 2021, the completion is expected in 2028). | WIKI |
| The main flow of traffic leads through the centre of the city and through inner and outer ring roads (partially in operation). | WIKI |
| Inner Ring Road (The City Ring "MO"): Once completed it will surround the wider central part of the city. | WIKI |
| The longest city tunnel in Europe with a length of 5.5 kilometres (3.4 miles) and five interchanges has been completed to relieve congestion in the north-western part of Prague. | WIKI |
| Called Blanka tunnel complex and part of the City Ring Road, it was estimated to eventually costxc2xa0xe2x80x93 after several increasesxc2xa0xe2x80x93 CZK 43xc2xa0billion. | WIKI |
| Outer Ring Road (The Prague Ring "D0"): This ring road will connect all major motorways and speedways that meet each other in Prague region and provide faster transit without a necessity to drive through the city. | WIKI |
| The city forms the hub of the Czech railway system, with services to all parts of the country and abroad. | WIKI |
| Other airports in Prague include the city's original airport in the north-eastern district of Kbely, which is serviced by the Czech Air Force, also internationally. | WIKI |
| [118] As of 2021, there are four companies providing bicycle sharing in Prague, none of them is subsidized by the city: Rekola (1,000 bikes), Nextbike (1,000 bikes), Bolt and Lime. | WIKI |
| The inscribed site is a serial property comprising the Historic Centre of Prague situated on the territory of the self-governing administrative unit of the City of Prague, and of the Prxc5xafhonice Park, located southeast of the city on the territory of the Central Bohemia. | UNESCO |
| The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. | UNESCO |
| The integrity of the Historic Centre of Prague is also threatened by an increasing development pressure on the roofscape and it might have a negative impact on the visual integrity of the city which has remained well-preserved so far. | UNESCO |
| The historic city centre itself contains a number of buildings that are designated cultural heritage or national cultural heritage sites and is protected as an urban heritage reservation under national legislation. | UNESCO |
| In case of a part including the historic city itself, the management plan is coordinated by the steering group and prepared by the Municipal Authority of Prague, which also prepares the General Conception of Tourism in the Capital City of Prague. | UNESCO |