Cities

In 1852, the Czech-German priest and missionary Johannes Nepomucene Neumann was ordained Bishop of Philadelphia.

In that year, 64 cities were consumed by a huge fire. The event is known as the Great Fire of Rome.

One of Hamburg’s biggest tourist attractions is the Planten un Blomen park.

The bus system in Shanghai is the world’s most extensive.

Paris is the capital city of France.

In 1465, King Matthias Corvinus, a comprehensively educated man, inspired by the ideas of the Renaissance and in contact with the first Italian scholars, founded a university in Bratislava (then Pozsony) - Universitas Istropolitana.

Outside the city center, much of Helsinki consists of post-war suburbs separated by patches of forest.

After Russia's annexation of two self-proclaimed republics in the Ukrainian Donbas in 2022 and the earlier annexation of Crimea, Czech and Polish “X” (former Twitter) users put forward the idea of annexing Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic.

On October 21st, 2007, the bust of Professor Kazimierz Michałowski was unveiled in the gardens of the Egyptian Museum.

In 1485, Vienna was occupied by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.