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Encyclopedia > Pilsen Region
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Capital: Plzeň
Area: 7,561 km˛
Population: 550,113 (2004)
Map
Map of the Czech Republic highlighting the Plzen region

Plzeň Region (Czech: Plzeňský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) in the western part of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is named after its capital Plzeň (German: Pilsen).


Literature

  • Steffi's Club by D.A. Blyler (http://www.geocities.com/dablyler/page.html) Set in Plzeň, the novel describes the subterranean lives of the Czech city's inhabitants.

Cities of the Plzeň Region

Plzeň, Klatovy, Tachov, Rokycany, Domazlice.


External Links

  • Official website (http://www.kr-plzensky.cz/Default.asp?lang=1033)
  • Region statistics (http://www.czech.cz/index.php?section=1&menu=5&action=text&id=157)



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Hradec Kralové region is the second region of NUTS 2 Northeast, neighbouring on the Liberec Region to the west and the Pardubice Region to the south.
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Liberation of Pilsen and Western Bohemia by the 3rd Army was essentially erased from history books by the former Czechoslovak communist regime and has only recently entered public consciousness again.
Plzeň is famous for its Pilsener beer, named Pilsner Urquell and produced since 1842, and for the Škoda Works engineering factory established by Emil Škoda in 1859.
The most prominent monuments are the Gothic church of St. Bartholomew, said to date from 1292, whose tower (100 m) is the highest in the Czech Republic, the Renaissance town hall dating from the 16th century, and the third largest synagogue in the world (after Jerusalem and Budapest).
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