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Prague

[ prahg ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the western central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia.


Prague

/ prɑːɡ /

noun

  1. the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, on the Vltava River: a rich commercial centre during the Middle Ages; site of Charles University (1348) and a technical university (1707); scene of defenestrations (1419 and 1618) that contributed to the outbreak of the Hussite Wars and the Thirty Years' War respectively. Pop: 1 164 000 (2005 est) Czech namePraha


Prague

  1. Capital of The Czech Republic , situated on both banks of the Vltava River; the republic's largest city, as well as its most important industrial city; a leading European industrial and commercial center.


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Notes

In 1968, Prague was the center of Czech resistance to invasion by the Soviet Union .
From the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire resided at Prague as well as at Vienna .

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Example Sentences

Tensions over how to categorize Pluto and Xena came to a head in 2006 at a meeting in Prague of the IAU.

Prague’s mayor, Cliff Bryant, acknowledged the risk the city took in buying the hospital, given the facility’s history of financial problems and the additional pressures from the ongoing pandemic.

Vishal Aggarwal, who founded the nonprofit that purchased the Prague hospital, said he was never able to secure the financing that would serve as collateral because of the facility’s poor financial state.

A team in Prague might shoot one day, send the files to Brazil to be edited overnight, have them pinged to Taiwan for the campaign set-up and have them up and running the following morning.

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Josef Urban at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics in Prague is exploring a variety of approaches that use machine learning to boost the efficiency and performance of existing provers.

In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

Havel, back in Prague on the night the East Germans left, was walking home through the Malá Strana district.

There was Petr Miller, a forgeman from the Prague ČKD plant.

They would travel by train, and the trains would pass through Dresden, the East German city closest to Prague.

It had opened in Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Prague, London.

The Ordish bridge built at Prague in 1868 had oblique chains supporting the stiffening girders at intermediate points of the span.

In the German War he took part in the storming of Prague in 1742, and was made a brigadier.

But Slavik before leaving Prague proved at a farewell concert that there was at least one who could play the mad stuff.

You see, Herr Renwick, in ten minutes all the roads into Prague will be closed to them.

To the remarks about coming to Prague he rejoined regretfully: 'I can quite see that there is nothing for you to do here.

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