Prague

American  

[prahg] / prɑg /

noun

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

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Prague British  

/ prɑːɡ /

noun

1. Czech name: Praha.  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)

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Prague Cultural  

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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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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Moving back and forth in time, the film covers the writer’s life from his childhood in late-Habsburg Prague to his final illness, with Idan Weiss in the title role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“There I was without reading a word of it, just said yes, and then had to actually show up and do the job,” Hunnam, 46, says during a video call from Prague.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

They also conducted complementary ex-situ experiments in Prague, which made it possible to observe the samples over longer periods.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Apart from phones and rentals, strategist Jim Reid notes Tokyo restaurants are cheaper than Warsaw and Prague, and a two-thirds cheaper than New York or Zurich.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Exactly eight days after Kepler’s discovery of his third law, the incident that unleashed the Thirty Years’ War transpired in Prague.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan