Množina: Pragues

1. Capital and largest city of Czechoslovakia; Also called: Praha, Prag, capital of Czechoslovakia.
2. City in Oklahoma (USA); zip code 74864.
3. Village in Nebraska (USA); zip code 68050.
(Czech Praha) City and capital of the Czech Republic on the river Vltava; est) 1,300,000. Industries include automobiles, aircraft, chemicals, paper and printing, clothing, brewing, and food processing. It was the capital of Czechoslovakia 1918–93.
features.
Charles University 1348; Gothic cathedral of St Vitus; Prague castle (Prasky-Hrad); Malá Strana, with 17th- and 18th-century mansions; Old Town.
history.
14th century Prague became important during the reign of Charles IV, king of Bohemia and Moravia, and Holy Roman Emperor; he established the university and laid out the New Town.
15th century Hussite wars held back development.
1620 Battle of the White Mountain took place near Prague; the Czechs were defeated, and were ruled by the Hapsburgs until 1918.
1918 Czechoslovakia created; Prague became national capital.
1939 city occupied by Nazis.
1968 occupation by Soviet troops followed “Prague Spring”.
1989 protests in Prague led to fall of Communist regime.

Množina: Prague Schools

Group of linguists, including the Russian-born Roman Jakobson and the Russian Nicolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938), who were active in Prague in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Their theory of phonology (the study of sounds in languages) analyzed sounds into sets of oppositions.

Množina: Prague Springs

The 1968 program of liberalization, begun under a new Communist Party leader in Czechoslovakia. In Aug 1968 Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia and entered the capital Prague to put down the liberalization movement initiated by the prime minister Alexander Dubcek, who had earlier sought to assure the Soviets that his planned reforms would not threaten socialism. Dubcek was arrested but released soon afterwards. Most of the Prague Spring reforms were reversed.