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Definition: Brno from Philip's Encyclopedia

(Brünn) Capital city of central Jihomoravsky (Moravia) region, SE Czech Republic. Founded in the 10th century, it has a 15th-century cathedral. The Bren Gun was designed here. Industries: armaments, engineering, textiles, chemicals. Pop. (2001) 379,185.


Brno

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(bûr'nô), Ger. Brünn , city (1991 pop. 388,296), SE Czech Republic, at the confluence of the Svratka and Svitava rivers. It is the second largest city of the Czech Republic and the chief city of Moravia . Brno is an industrial center known for its international trade fairs and for its textile and metal manufactures. The famous Bren gun, later made in Enfield, England, was developed in Brno. Tourism is also economically important. Originally the site of a Celtic settlement, Brno grew between two hills, one of which, the Spielberg (Czech špilberk ), had a castle known in the 11th cent. The city became part of the kingdom of Bohemia , whose king, Ottocar I, confirmed Brno's ancient charter, a model of liberal town government, in 1229. King Wenceslaus I made it a free city by royal decree in 1243, and Brno flourished in the 13th and 14th cent. In the Hussite Wars it sided with the Roman Catholic Church. The city was besieged in 1645 by the Swedes and served as headquarters for Napoleon I…
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(bûr'nô), Ger. Brünn , city (1991 pop. 388,296), SE Czech Republic, at the confluence of the Svratka and Svitava rivers. It is the second largest city of the Czech Republic and the chief city of Moravia . Brno is an industrial center known for its international trade fairs and for its textile and…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 379,185), southeastern Czech Republic. Located southeast of Prague , it lies in an area that shows evidence of prehistoric inhabitance and traces of Celtic and Slavic settlements in the 5th–6th centuries ad . German colonization in the 13th century stimulated its growth; it…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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The house lost most of its original furniture and...
Czech Republic Criteria - Interchange of values; Significance in human history The Tugendhat Villa in Brno is a masterpiece of the Modern Movement in architecture in Europe in the 1920s. Its particular value lies in the way the German architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) applied the radical new…
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Full text Article Stedron, Milos (9 Feb. 1942, Brno)

From The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
He studied musicology at Brno Univ. from 1959 to 1964, then composition with Racek, Vysloužil, and Bohumír Štědroň, his uncle, at the Brno Academy of Music. He worked as a music researcher on Janáček’s music from 1963 to 1972 for the Moravian Museum in Brno. In 1972 he began teaching music theory at…
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Full text Article Chramostová, Vlasta (b. Brno, 17 November 1926).

From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting
Czech actress. Chramostová’s career has been emblematic of the difficulties of actors of conscience under totalitarianism. Often acclaimed as the best Czech actress during the 1950s and ’60s, she was barred from stage and screen, her films were banned, and references to her were expunged. After…
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From 1948 to 1952 he studied with Jaroslav Kvapil at the Janáček Music Academy in Brno; from 1956 he was assistant lecturer in music there and, from 1966, full lecturer. In 1963 he joined the experimental Tvůrčí Skupina A (Composers’ Group A). His early music took its impetus from folk music; by the…
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Full text Article Pololáník, Zdenek (25 Oct. 1935, Brno)

From The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
From 1952 to 1957 he studied organ at the Brno Conservatory of Music with Černocký. From 1957 until 1961 he studied composition at the Brno Academy of Music with Petrželka and Schaefer. He joined the avant-garde performance group Tvůrčí Skupina A (Creative Group A). His own works have been…
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