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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

The operation was run out of Zlín, the provincial town in south-west Czechoslovakia where Zelníčková was born and grew up.

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