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Czech Towns and Cities 2 (1605 words) |
 | Rakovnik in middle Bohemia is a district town of 20.000 inhabitants.Information on the town and the district. |
| Sedlcany in district Pribram is a tiny town with a population of 5000. |
| Smrzovka are the twin towns between the Krkonose and the Jizerske mountains (Riesen und Isergebirge) in the North Bohemia near the city of Liberec. |
| Czech Republic (17525 words) |
| In the novel, the Czech soldier Svejk, a seemingly slow-witted and submissive provincial bumpkin, uses gile and obtuseness, disguised as passive compliance, to outwit the Austrian bureaucracy and military establishment. |
| At that time, the Czechs were able to take advantage of the struggle between two contenders to the imperial throne, and in 1609 they extracted a Letter of Majesty from Emperor Rudolf II (1576-1612) that promised toleration of the Czech Reformed Church, gave control of Charles University to the Czech estates, and made other concessions. |
| The Czech revival acquired an institutional foundation with the establishment of the Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom (1818) as a center for Czech scholarship. |
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