On 9 October 2009, it was announced that Infraero will invest in airports abroad: Infraero was invited by the Government of Paraguay to administer Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Asunción and invited to participate in the privatization of Ruzyně Airport in Prague, Czech Republic, among other investments.

* 2002 – Prague Summit Declaration, issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council during the 2002 Prague Summit.

The Germans in Czechoslovakia, known as Sudeten Germans but also Carpathian Germans, were expelled according to the Beneš decrees — from the Sudetenland region, where they formed a majority, from linguistic enclaves in central Bohemia and Moravia, as well as from the city of Prague.

Under Communism, the Czechoslovak economy in the 1960s was in serious decline and the imposition of central control from Prague disappointed local Communists while the destalinization program caused further disquiet.

After this event the peace of Prague placed the Swedish army in a very precarious position, but the victories won by the united forces of Banér and Field Marshal Alexander Leslie, commander of the Army of the Weser, at the Battle of Wittstock ( October 4, 1636 ), restored the paramount influence of Sweden in central Germany.

It was funded by Czechoslovakia's central authorities ( as were all films under the supervision of local Communist Party ), produced at the Barrandov Film Studio in Prague, and filmed with a Slovak cast on location at the town of Sabinov in north-eastern Slovakia and on the Barrandov sound stage.

This position was underlined by the foundation of important institutions, like Buecherei der Deutschen, a central German library in Czechoslovakia and by failed efforts to relocate the German ( Charles ) University from Prague to Liberec.

Only the fortified Ceoris, in the Southern Carpathians in Transylvania, survived, but the Tremere soon spread again and founded strongholds in Prague and Vienna ( the latter was to become their main center of power ), with smaller chantries elsewhere ( such as the one in Perugia, in central Italy ).

One of the major awards Prague Ruzyně Airport received include Diploma and Gold Medal granted in 1937 at the occasion of the International Art and Technical Exhibition in Paris ( Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne also known as Paris 1937 World's Fair ) for the technical conception of the central airport, primarily the architecture of the check-in building ( nowadays known as Terminal 4 ) designed by architect Ing.

Then, in 1927, a modest concession by Prague granted Slovakia the status of a separate administrative province, and the Slovak People's Party joined the central government in Prague.

It returned economic enterprises, which had been given substantial independence during the Prague Spring, to centralized control through contracts based on central planning and production quotas.

It also granted a small degree of autonomy to Slovakia, which was given its own legislative body and governmental structure, although these were made subordinate to the central authorities in Prague.

The central government, located in Prague, had exclusive jurisdiction over foreign policy, international relations, defense, federal stockpiles, federal legislation and administration, and the federal judicial system.

In 1919 both councils were absorbed by the newly created and independent central governments in Prague and Warsaw.

However, central administration in Prague saw Olza as a Polish name and when most of the river became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1920 it tried to change its name to the Czech form of Olše.

In 1919 the councils were absorbed by the newly created and independent central governments in Prague and Warsaw.

In 1787, when the plague again struck the city, Emperor Joseph II banned the burial of bodies within Prague city limits and Olšany Cemetery was declared the central graveyard for hygiene purposes.

The basilica features an impressive stone mosaic above its entry, and its twin spires can be seen atop a hill to the south from along the Vltava River in central Prague.

In 1919 the councils were absorbed by the newly created and independent central governments in Prague and Warsaw.

Bromova was discovered as a two-year-old by a well-known Socialist Realist sculptor, Lidicky, who used her as the model for the child in a monumental sculpture of the " Ideal Socialist Family ", which was placed beside the national memorial building on a hill in central Prague, where the mummified body of the first Communist president, Klement Gottwald, was housed.

Afterwards, he set out on a tour of the central and eastern European capitols, visiting Warsaw on December 3, Bucharest on December 8, Belgrade on December 12, and Prague on December 15, in each case discussing the European situation with the ministers of the countries in question, and seeking to foster friendly relations with France.

The Czech National Bank (, ČNB ) is the central bank and financial market supervisor in the Czech Republic with its headquarters in Prague.

In the 1946 elections in Czechoslovakia, the party won as much as 62 % of votes in Slovakia, but was liquidated in 1947-1948 by the Communists, who had a majority in the central government in Prague ( because as opposed to Slovakia, it was the Communists who won the 1946 elections in Czechia ).

The grand central plaza of Vinohrady is Namesti Miru with the Vinohrady Theatre, the National House of Vinohrady and the main Prague 2 municipal building.

Zdeněk Michael František Burian ( February 11, 1905, Kopřivnice, Moravia-July 1, 1981 Prague ) was a Czech painter and book illustrator whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstructions during a remarkable career spanning five decades.

Ribbentrop played an important role in setting in motion the crisis that was to result in the end of Czecho-Slovakia by ordering German diplomats in Bratislava to contact Father Jozef Tiso, the Premier of the Slovak regional government, and pressuring him to declare independence from Prague.

The Prague Spring was legitimised by the Czechoslovak government as a socialist reform movement.

Soviet paratroopers on a light tank head towards Prague Castle, seat of the Czechoslovak government, and downtown Prague in the early morning hours of 21 August 1968

The Group originated in a summit meeting of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland held in the Hungarian castle town of Visegrád on 15 February 1991 ( not to be mistaken with Vyšehrad, a castle in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, or with the town of Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

The March of Moravia was subdued and its government entrusted to Rudolph's representatives, leaving Ottokar's widow Kunigunda of Slavonia, in control of only the province surrounding Prague, while the young Wenceslaus II was again betrothed to Rudolph's youngest daughter Judith.

The highest tier of local government in the Czech Republic are the thirteen regions ( Czech: kraje, singular kraj ) and the capital city of Prague.

* In late 1981 he was arrested by the Czechoslovakian government upon leading a conference in Prague that lacked government authorization, and charged with the " production and trafficking of drugs ", which he claimed were planted as he visited Kafka's grave.

The political climate in Prague was a further source of gloom ; hopes of a more enlightened government and social reform following Franz Joseph's accession in 1848 had faded as Austrian absolutism reasserted itself under Baron Alexander von Bach.

With the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Allies recognized Masaryk as head of the Provisional Czechoslovak government, and on November 14, 1918, he was elected President of the Czechoslovak Federation by the National Assembly in Prague.

This is how Elizabeth came to be known as the " Winter Queen " ( zimní královna in Czech ), even though she and her husband held court in Prague and controlled the government of Bohemia for months after the end of the winter of 1619-1620.

Lord Runciman was sent by Chamberlain to mediate in Prague and persuaded the Czech government to grant the Sudeten virtual autonomy.

Most of them had obtained degrees in reputable Schools outside the country thanks to scholarships granted by the government, like Sergio Fernández Barroso ( also known as Sergio Barroso ), that received a post-graduate degree from the Superior Academy of Music in Prague, and Roberto Valera, who studied with Witold Rudzinsky and Andrej Dobrowolsky in Poland.

The high number of unemployed people, hunger, fear of the future and dissatisfaction with the Prague government led to the flash rise of the populist Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) founded by Konrad Henlein, born in the suburbs of Liberec.

An online petition organized by one of the best-known Slovak film directors, Fero Fenič, calling on the government and the Parliament to rename Prague Ruzyně Airport to Václav Havel International Airport attracted-just in a week after December 20, 2011-a support of over 65, 000 signatories both within and outside of the Czech Republic.

Then, as the Shah's representative, he returned to Europe and visited Moscow, Prague, Rome, and other cities, but the English government would not allow him to return to his own country.

In the wake of the Munich Conference, the Prague government disbanded the CPC from September 1938 and the CPC went underground.

In 1968, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia called the Prague Spring took place that included " Action Program " of liberalizations, which described increasing freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of movement, along with an economic emphasis on consumer goods, the possibility of a multiparty government, limiting the power of the secret police and potentially withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.

Tuka was arrested and tried in 1929, after which the Slovak People's Party resigned from the government in Prague as a sign of protest.

Its government, installed at Košice on April 4 and moved to Prague in May, was a National Front coalition in which three socialist parties -- KSČ, Czechoslovak Social democratic Party, and Czech National Social Party -- predominated.

The reform concerned Slovak autonomy ; the concentration of governmental authority in Prague was a source of discontent within Slovakia throughout the 1960s, and the federalization of the Czechoslovak government codified in the 1968 constitutional amendments was virtually the only product of the reform movement associated with the Prague Spring to survive.