According to a traditional legend, first recorded by the ancient Czech chronicler Cosmas of Prague in the early 12th century, Říp was the place where the first Slavs, led by Praotec Čech ( Forefather Bohemus ), settled.

If the Czech ethnic origin was to be stressed, combinations like " Bohemian of Bohemian language "( Čech českého jazyka ), " a real Bohemian " ( pravý Čech ) etc.

The name čeština " Czech " is derived from a Slavic tribe of Czechs ( Čech, pl.

Instead, Adolf Čech conducted the premier of Dvořák ’ s sixth symphony with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on March 25, 1881, in Prague.

Prague: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Adolf Čech conductor.

In an exciting final game in Group A, an injury-and suspension-hit Turkey came back from 2 – 0 down to beat the Czech Republic 3 – 2, after an uncharacteristic handling mistake by Petr Čech, in the last few minutes, left Nihat Kahveci with the simplest of finishes.

Eduard Čech () ( June 29, 1893 – March 15, 1960 ) was a Czech mathematician born in Stračov, Bohemia ( then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic ).

Zdeněk Grygera, Tomáš Hübschman, Jaromír Blažek, Karel Poborský and academy products Petr Čech and Tomáš Rosický helped Czech football to become recognised as being amongst the elite in Europe and most have played for elite European clubs.

Due to the abundance of other top strikers such as Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Totti and Luca Toni, Inzaghi made his only appearance ( subbing on for Alberto Gilardino ) in a group stage match against the Czech Republic on 22 June 2006, scoring his only goal in the tournament, rounding Petr Čech in a one-on-one encounter to net in Italy's second goal, which made him the oldest player to have scored for Italy in a World Cup.

Petr Čech (; born 20 May 1982 ) is a Czech footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Czech Republic as a goalkeeper.

In November 2001, Čech broke the record formerly held by Theodor Reimann for the longest time elapsed without conceding a goal in the Czech professional league, stretching his run to 855 minutes.

Čech finished the month of February by being named the Czech Footballer of the Year for the first time.

* A Czech version called The Greatest Czech ( Největší Čech ) aired in June 2005.

Lech, Čech, and Rus is a legend of three brothers – Lech, Čech ( or Czech ), and Rus – who founded three Slavic nations: Lechia ( Poland ), Czechia ( Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia ; thus modern Czech Republic ), and Ruthenia ( Rus ', modern Russia, Belarus and Ukraine ).

It was invented and constructed by the Czech theologian Václav Prokop Diviš ( 1698-1765 ) — his surname is pronounced " Deevish " and often spelled " Divisch " — at his parish in the Moravian town Přímětice near Znojmo in the south-east of what is now the Czech Republic.

* Ř / ř ( only in Czech: special fricative trill, transcribed as in pre-1989 IPA, pronounced roughly as a compound of trilled and, e. g. Antonín Dvořák )

A redowa ( pronounced ) is dance of Czech origin with turning, leaping waltz steps that was most popular in Victorian era European ballrooms.

Her surname ( pronounced kh-lum-skee ) is Czech in origin.

During 1408 and 1409 he was in Prague, and there his pronounced Czech preferences aroused opposition to him in some quarters.

In Czech it is pronounced Yablonets.

The Cyrillic г / г in Russian is pronounced as g, while in Ukrainian and Belarusian as h. That also can be noted in Czech and Slovak languages that changed from Cyrillic alphabet to Latin.

In the Austrian capital of Vienna, where large Czech communities settled down at the end of 19th century, Novák was Germanized to Nowak because in German the " w " is pronounced as a " v ".

Czech and Slovak form of this name is: Zbyhněv ( pronounced close to polish form ).

The Christkind ( German " Christ-child ", pronounced ) is the traditional Christmas gift-bringer in regions of Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, parts of Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Switzerland, Slovakia, Hungary, parts of Hispanic America, in certain areas of southern Brazil and in the Acadiana region of Louisiana.

The letter ch is a digraph consisting of the sequence of Latin alphabet graphemes C and H, however it is a single phoneme ( pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative ) and represents a single entity in Czech collation order, inserted between H and I.

While Starkey is at Cooper's apartment, she plays a piece of classic music, by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák ( pronounced Dvor-zhack ).

František Fuka ( pronounced ) ( October 9, 1968 in Prague ) is a computer programmer and musician from the Czech Republic, well known in the ZX Spectrum and SAM Coupé communities for his work in the late 80s and early 90s as Fuxoft, especially for Tetris 2, an objective based unofficial sequel to Tetris.

Rudolf " Rudi " Skácel ( pronounced Skatsel ; born 17 July 1979 ) is a professional footballer who has been capped at international level by the Czech Republic and recently left Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premier League.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Examples include Czech: kmín – caraway, římský kmín-cumin ; Polish: kminek – caraway, kmin rzymski – cumin ; Hungarian: kömény – caraway, római kömény – cumin.

The Czech Republic also possesses Moldauhafen, a enclave in the middle of Hamburg docks, which was awarded to Czechoslovakia by Article 363 of the Treaty of Versailles to allow the landlocked country a place where goods transported downriver could be transferred to seagoing ships ; this territory reverts to Germany in 2028.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

Czech (; čeština ) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers ; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide.

The political boundaries shifted with time between Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and other countries ; the three social strata remained a constant: clergy, nobility and peasants.

) Overall, the Esperanto alphabet resembles the Czech alphabet, but with circumflexes rather than háčeks on the letters ĉ, ŝ ; Western-based ĝ, ĵ in place of Czech dž, ž ; and ĥ for Czech ch.

One of the plays, also said to be lost, which was a subject of their correspondence, was Čechové na Řípu ( English: " Czechs on Říp "), a fictional account of an old Bohemian legend, which is here said to feature not only the legendary Forefather Czech, but also other characters as Forefather German, Forefather Jew and, in dialogue only, Forefather Gipsy, by which Cimrman wanted to honour all major nationalities living in Bohemia.

It also airs on Minimax for the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Additionally, a Czech proposal also surfaced to link Ghana railways with Burkina Faso.

Moravia, the eastern part, is also quite hilly and is drained predominantly by the Morava river, but also contains the source of the Oder ( Czech: Odra ) river.

: See also: Czech Republic

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

As given by appropriate laws, courts and authorities can enact and write out documents and judgements in the Czech language ( also, financial authorities in the Slovak language ).

Czech can also be used in all official proceedings in Slovakia as granted by Article 6 of Slovak Minority Language Act 184 / 1999 Zb.

Czech is also one of the 23 official languages in the European Union ( since May 2004 ).

These first seven Carmichael numbers, from 561 to 8911, were all found by the Czech mathematician Václav Šimerka in 1885 ( thus preceding not just Carmichael but also Korselt, although Šimerka did not find anything like Korselt's criterion ).

* Czech, mainly during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV but also during other periods of Bohemian control over the HRE.

The hope that multiple Central and European parties would join ED also proved to be dubious, as only the Czech Civic Democratic Party took up the offer, with the remainder joining EPP proper or other groups such as Union for Europe of the Nations or Independence and Democracy.

There is also a published account from 1838, written by the German Czech journalist Franz Klutschack.

Modern handball is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball ( which were more common in the past ) and beach handball ( also called sandball ).

Nevertheless, irradiated foods that fall within the single category ; ' dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings ' are permitted presently in all 27 member states of the European Community and seven countries ( Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom ) also maintain a number of national regulations that allow other irradiated foods to be marketed as long as they comply with Directvie 1999 / 2 / EC.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

* Elbogen – The oldest recorded meteorite in the Czech Republic, also known as the " betwitched burgrave ".

Circle dances were also found in the area that is today the Czech Republic.

Czech composers also developed a thriving national opera movement of their own in the 19th century, starting with Bedřich Smetana, who wrote eight operas including the internationally popular The Bartered Bride.

The Czech Republic also used to use the An-30 for this purpose but they apparently retired all of theirs from service in 2003.

There are also significant numbers of Polish speakers among Polish emigrants and their descendants in many other countries, including Argentina, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Peru, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the UAE, the UK, Uruguay and the United States.

# The Silesian language is spoken in the Upper Silesia region, mainly in the Silesian Voivodeship and Opole Voivodeship in Poland and also in the Moravian – Silesian Region in Czech Republic.

The Czech musical film, Rebelové from Filip Renč, also depicts the events, the invasion and subsequent wave of emigration.