Czech Republic AIESEC Country Presentation Czech Republic esk

Czech Republic AIESEC Country Presentation

Czech Republic Česká republika So where to look for Czech Republic? HEY, it's just in the of Europe. . . And who lives next door? Many many Germans : -) Also a lot of Polish guys Some Austrians And our Slovak “brothers”

Czech Republic Česká republika Some basic facts AREA: 78 866 km 2 (five times smaller than Germany) POPULATION: approx. 10 million CAPITAL: Praha (Prague) – 1. 2 million inhabitans HIGHEST MOUNTAIN: Sněžka, 1602 m GDP per capita: 18 100 USD (Germany: 29 100 USD) CURRENCY: Kč – Czech Koruna (1€ = 28 Kč) Member of the EU since 1 May 2004

Czech Republic Česká republika Division Two historical lands: Bohemia (Čechy) and Moravia (Morava). . . and 14 administrative regions

Czech Republic Česká republika Our History in Short

Czech Republic Česká republika Long time ago. . . ? ? ? Celtic tribes settle in Bohemian lands around 600 Celts being replaced by first Slavic tribes 9 th Century Czech state established, Christianity introduced 1212 Czech king officially acknowledged

Czech Republic Česká republika Golden Age, Hussite Revolution and Habsburgs 1346 Karel IV (Charles IV of Luxembourg) takes over, flourishing period starts (1348 – first university in Central Europe founded Prague is the capital of Holy Roman Empire) 1415 Reformed Jan Hus executed, Hussite revolution against Catholics starts (1419 – First Prague Defenestration) 1526 No more Czech kings, Habsburgs take over 1618 Second Prague Defenestration, Thirty Years War begins 1618 - 1918 Habsburgs rule strictly, Germanization, Czechs have very few rights

Czech Republic Česká republika Czechoslovakia 1918 Independent Czechoslovak state founded 1918 – 1938 First Czechoslovak Republic 1939 – 1945 Nazi occupation (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, Slovakia is a separated state) 1945 – 1948 After-war reconstruction, Czechoslovakia re-established 1948 Communists take over 1968 Prague Spring, Soviet occupation 1989 Velvet Revolution, Communism is over 1993 Czechoslovakia splits up into Czech Republic and Slovakia

Czech Republic Česká republika Recent events March 1999 Czech Republic joins NATO May 2004 Czech Republic joins the European Union March 2006 Czech guy Jiri comes to Magdeburg to do his internship : -)

Czech Republic Česká republika Some Famous People

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame - Science Otto Wichterle inventor of contact lenses Jaroslav Heyrovský Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1959 (for polarography) Janský discovered blood groups Johann Gregor Mendel “father of genetics”

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Culture Antonín Dvořák composer Bedřich Smetana composer Miloš Forman director Franz Kafka writer Alfons Mucha painter Karel (the) Gott popsinger

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Sport Emil Zátopek distance running Martina Navrátilová tennis Jan Železný javelin

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Sport Jaromír Jágr ice-hockey Pavel Nedvěd football Dominik Hašek ice-hockey, goalkeeper Roman Šebrle decathlon

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Politics Madeleine Albright former US Secretary of State Václav Havel our prezident 1990 -2003 also writer Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk the first prezident of Czechoslovakia

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Others Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) philosopher and teacher Sigmund Freud psychoanalyst Tomáš Baťa businessman

Czech Republic Česká republika Hall of Fame – Others Eva Herzigová top model Dolly Buster porn star

Czech Republic Česká republika What Are Czechs Good At?

Czech Republic Česká republika Well, we are definitely good in ice-hockey! 1996 – 2006: 6 x World Champions, 1 x Second, 1 x Third Gold Medal at Olympic Games in Nagano '98 Bronze Medal at Olympic Games in Torino '06

Czech Republic Česká republika Everybody knows Czech beer is the best! We are also “best” in drinking it - by average, every Czech person drinks 160 litres of beer a year