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Zlín

American  
[zhleen] / ʒlin /

noun

  1. a city in SE Moravia, Czech Republic.


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Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler to a Jewish family in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, on July 3, 1937.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 29, 2025

She married Eugen Sträussler, a doctor working in Zlín in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, for a shoemaking company called Bata, which ran the town.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2022

Ivana Marie Zelnickova was born Feb. 20, 1949, in what is now Zlín, in the Czech Republic.

From Washington Post Jul. 14, 2022

Surý, who was deputy head of the local StB, still lives in Zlín.

From The Guardian Oct. 29, 2018

Trump’s mother was an immigrant, too, from Scotland; his first wife was born Ivana Zelníčková, in Zlín, Czechoslovakia.

From The New Yorker May 9, 2016

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