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Headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior in Prague. The Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (Czech: Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky) is a government ministry tasked with responsibilities in public and internal security, citizenship, identity cards and social security numbers, as well as travel, border, immigration control and civil service among others.
Vacant. Map. Website. www.ado.cz. The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc (Czech: Metropolitní Arcidiecéze olomoucká, Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Olomucensis) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc.
Saint Wenceslas Cathedral (Czech: Katedrála svatého Václava) is a gothic cathedral at Wenceslas Square in Olomouc, in the Czech Republic, founded in 1107. The square was named after Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia on the thousandth anniversary of his death in 935. The cathedral is also named after him. The cathedral is the seat of the ...
Olomouc was fortified by Maria Theresa during the wars with Frederick the Great, who besieged the city unsuccessfully for seven weeks in 1758. In 1848 Olomouc was the scene of the emperor Ferdinand's abdication. [18] Two years later, Austrian and German statesmen held a conference here called the Punctation of Olmütz.
1457–1482 Protas Černohorský of Boskovice. 1483/4–1490 John Filipec. 1487–1489 Jan Vitéz mladší. 1489–1493 Ardicino della Porta. 1493–1497 Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor. 1497–1540 Stanislav I Thurzo. 1540–1541 Bernard Zoubek of Zdětín. 1541–1553 Jan Dubravius. 1553–1565 Marek Khuen of Olomouc.
Olomouc Region (Czech: Olomoucký kraj; German: Olmützer Region, pronounced [ˈɔlmʏt͡sɐ ʁeˈɡi̯oːn]; Polish: Kraj ołomuniecki) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western and central part of its historical region of Moravia (Morava) and in a small part of the historical region of Czech Silesia (České Slezsko).
Palacký University Olomouc (Czech: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci) is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy.
Olomouc District (Czech: okres Olomouc) is a district in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Olomouc. Administrative division.