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Zlín (in 1949–1989 Gottwaldov; Czech pronunciation: [zliːn]; German: Zlin) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 74,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Zlín Region and it lies on the Dřevnice River. It is known as an industrial centre.
Zlín, city, south-central Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River, near its confluence with the Morava River. Gottwaldov was created in 1948 through a merger of several communities surrounding Zlín, a 14th-century village that had grown rapidly after World War I.
Zlín. The rigorously built functionalistic city is a unique display of interwar modern urbanism and architecture, not only on the Czech scale. Everything is economical, rational and functional: villas, family houses and residential homes, workers’ colonies, collective houses, public buildings, the first Czech skyscraper, and original street ...
Zlín, the administrative center of the Zlín region, lies along the river Dřevnice in a mild climatic area of southeastern Moravia. It is also a crossroad for the ethnographic boundaries of the Wallachian, Hana and Moravian Slovak regions.
Zlín is a city in the South Moravia region of the Czech Republic. Bata shoe company started and developed here before the World War II. The city is most well known for its interesting functionalistic architecture. Understand. Zlín was first mentioned in 1302 and soon became a local center for crafts and mining.
A natural metropolis of southeast Moravia, a statutory city, university seat and center of the Zlín Region - all this is today's Zlín. The city became world famous at the beginning of the 20th century thanks to Bata shoe factories, which later carried the name Svit.
The regional capital of Zlín is situated in the Dřevnice Stream valley, in the moderate climatic zone of southeast Moravia on the border of the local regions of Moravian Wallachia, Haná and Moravian Slovakia.
History and present. The centre of the Baťa shoemaking empire. Regional centre of Southeast Moravia. Zlín's history dates back to the middle Ages. Deep in the 13th century, a small castle could have been seen on a wooded hill south of Zlín's current centre and some kind of settlement certainly existed in its vicinity.
Zlín Region (Czech: Zlínský kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the south-eastern part of the historical region of Moravia. It is named after its capital Zlín. Together with the Olomouc Region it forms a cohesion area of Central Moravia.
The regional capital Zlín is situated in the east part of Moravia, on the border between the Hostýn and Vizovice highlands. It extends into three ethnographic regions – Moravian Wallachia, Haná and Moravian Slovakia. It is closest to Moravian Wallachia with its character.
