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History of Brno. Brno was recognised as a town in 1243 by Wenceslaus I, King of Bohemia, but the area had been settled since the 2nd century. It is mentioned in Ptolemy's atlas of Magna Germania as Eburodunum. [1] From the 11th century, a castle of the governing Přemyslid dynasty stood here, and was the seat of the non-ruling prince.
1935 - New City Hall (Brno) in use. 1939 Brno (and whole country) occupied by German Nazis. The Germans established an internment camp for Romani people in the city. [20] 1941 - First Martial Law, 239 people executed in Brno by the Germans, another 1,000 in concentration camps.
Brno (/ ˈ b ɜːr n oʊ / BUR-noh, [5] Czech: ⓘ; ‹See Tfd› German: Brünn ⓘ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 400,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the 100 largest cities of the European Union.
t. e. The Brno death march[1][2][3] (German: Brünner Todesmarsch) began late on the night of 30 May 1945 [1] when the ethnic German minority in Brno (German: Brünn [bʁʏn] ⓘ) was expelled to nearby Austria following the capture of the city by the Allies during World War II. Only about half of expellees actually crossed the border.
The Siege of Brno, which occurred from 3 May 3 to 23 August 1645, was the second Swedish siege of the city of Brno in the last years of the Thirty Years' War. [2] The Brno garrison, consisting of 500 soldiers and about 1,000 Brno residents, successfully defended the city against about 28,000 soldiers of General Lennart Torstensson.
Gregor Johann MendelOSA (/ ˈmɛndəl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [ 2 ] 20 July 1822 [ 3 ] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech [ 4 ] biologist, meteorologist, [ 5 ] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of ...
History of Brno; Timeline of Brno; B. Böhmische Dörfer; Brno death march; H. Harok family murder; M. List of mayors of Brno; T. Treaty of Brno (1478) Treaty of Brno ...
Church of St. James (Brno) Coordinates: 49°11′48.04″N 16°36′30.4″E. Saint James Church. Saint James` church (Czech: Kostel svatého Jakuba Staršího) is a late Gothic three-nave church situated in James' square (Jakubské náměstí) in the centre of Brno, in Czech Republic. Its history starts in the beginning of the 13th century.