Search results
Coordinates: 49°13′59″N 17°40′1″E. 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 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. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map.
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Klement Gottwald ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈklɛmɛnt ˈɡotvalt]; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953 – titled as general secretary until 1945 and as chairman from 1945 to 1953.
Gottwaldov (Gottwaldov) is a seat of a first-order administrative division (class P - Populated Place) in Zlinsky kraj (Zlínský Kraj), Czech Republic (Europe) with the region font code of Eastern Europe. It is located at an elevation of 317 meters above sea level and its population amounts to 78,759.
People also ask
Why is Zmiiv called Gottwaldovo námestie?
Why did Gottwald fight in the Battle of Zborov?
Who was Klement Gottwald wife Marta Gottwaldová?
Why did Joseph Stalin order Gottwald to stop communism in Czechoslovakia?
Zlín was renamed Gottwaldov in 1949 after the first communist president of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald. After the Velvet revolution, Zlín regained its original name in 1990. In addition to the internationally well known shoe factory Baťa, Zlín is also famous for the animation film studios, whose works from the 1960s also became popular ...
