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Krkonoše

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The Krkonoše (Czech), Karkonosze (Polish), Riesengebirge (German), Riesageberge (Silesian German) or Giant Mountains, are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif). [1]

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Adolf Zander

Adolf Zander (born 16 January 1843 in Barnewitz an Havel; died 1 August 1914 in Kleinaupa, Riesengebirge) was a 19th-century German composer, organist at the Church of St. Sophia in Berlin, choir director, Royal Prussian music director and founder of the new male Berliner Liedertafel choir.

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AH-IV

The AH-IV was a Czechoslovak-designed tankette used by Romania, Sweden and Iran during World War II.

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Alena Vrzáňová

Alena "Ája" Vrzáňová (also Zanová, married name: Steindler; 16 May 1931 – 30 July 2015) was a Czech figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia in competition.

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Alois Bubák

Alois Bubák (August 20, 1824, Kosmonosy – March 6, 1870, Prague) was a Czech painter of landscapes and an illustrator.

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Alpine shrew

The alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

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Antal Stašek

Antal Stašek (born Antonín Zeman) (22 July 1843 – 9 October 1931), was a Czech writer and lawyer.

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Arriva

Arriva is a multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.

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Asciburgius

The Asciburgius mons or Askibourgion oros is a mountain of greater Germany mentioned by the ancient geographer, Ptolemy, of unknown location today.

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Úpa

The Úpa (Aupa) is a river in the Czech Republic and a left tributary of the River Elbe (Labe).

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Černá Hora

Černá Hora means black mountain in Czech, and in the Czech Republic, it is used for Montenegro.

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Łabski Szczyt

Łabski Szczyt or Violík (in Polish and Czech) (Veilchenstein) is a mountain peak located in the western Karkonosze on the Czech-Polish border.

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Śląskie Kamienie

Śląskie Kamienie or Dívčí kameny ("Silesian Rocks" or "Maiden Rocks"; German: Mädelsteine), and Czeskie Kamienie or Mužské kameny ("Czech Rocks" or "Man Rocks" in Polish and Czech respectively), is a twin peak and a rock formation situated in the western part of Karkonosze on Polish and Czech border within the Karkonosze National Park on the Polish–Czech Friendship Trail.

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Śmielec

Śmielec (1424 m a.s.l.) is a mountain peak situated in the western part of Karkonosze on Polish and Czech border within the Karkonosze National Park.

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Śnieżne Kotły

Śnieżne Kotły (Sněžné jámy, Schneegruben, literally Snowy Pits, Snowy Cirque) are two glacial cirques in the western Krkonoše mountains (Giant Mountains), situated in the Karkonosze National Park on the Polish side of the border.

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Špindlerův Mlýn

Špindlerův Mlýn (Spindlermühle, formerly also Spindelmühle) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour

The Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour is a cycling race in West Poland that runs between the Baltic Sea and the Karkonosze.

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Balancing rock

A balancing rock, also called balanced rock or precarious boulder, is a naturally occurring geological formation featuring a large rock or boulder, sometimes of substantial size, resting on other rocks, bedrock, or on glacial till.

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Battle of Hohenfriedberg

The Battle of Hohenfriedberg or Hohenfriedeberg, now Dobromierz, also known as the Battle of Striegau, now Strzegom, was one of Frederick the Great's most admired victories.

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Battle of Nachod

The Battle of Nachod (or Náchod) on 27 June 1866 was the first major action of the Austro-Prussian War.

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Battle of Trautenau

The Battle of Trautenau (Schlacht bei Trautenau) or Battle of Trutnov was fought on 27 June 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War.

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Bóbr

Bóbr (Bobr, Bober) is a river which runs through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland, a left tributary of the Oder.

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Bieleboh

Bieleboh is a mountain in the Lusatian Highlands, in the east of Saxony, Germany.

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Biosphere reserves of Poland

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves are environment-protected scientific-research institutions of international status that are created with the intent for conservation in a natural state the most typical natural complexes of biosphere, conducting background ecological monitoring, studying of the surrounding natural environment, its changes under the activity of anthropogenic factors.

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Blouznivci našich hor

Blouznivci našich hor is a Czech novel, written by Antal Stašek.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy;; Czechy; Bohême; Bohemia; Boemia) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.

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Bohemian Massif

The Bohemian Massif (Česká vysočina or Český masiv, Böhmische Masse or Böhmisches Massiv) is in the geology of Central Europe a large massif stretching over central Czech Republic, eastern Germany, southern Poland and northern Austria.

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Breiteberg

The Breiteberg is a mountain in the Lausitzer Bergland in Free State of Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany, with an altitude of above mean sea level.

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Broadcast signal intrusion

Broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals.

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Campanula gelida

Campanula gelida (zvonek jesenický) is a stenoendemic, critically endangered species of perennial bellflower growing in the mountains of Hrubý Jeseník in the Czech Republic.

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Carl Rüedi

Carl Rüedi (April 21 (or 23?), 1848 – June 17, 1901) was a Swiss pulmonologist and at his lifetime one of the best-known physicians in Graubünden.

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Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.

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Cirque

Two cirques with semi-permanent snowpatches near Abisko National Park, Sweden A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.

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Corconti

The Corconti or Korkontoi were an ancient people, named as Germanic, in (2.10) of the Geography of Ptolemy (after 83 – 161 AD).

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Crown of Polish Mountains

Crown of Polish Mountains – a list of 28 peaks one per each of the mountain ranges of Poland.

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Cyclone Kyrill

Cyclone Kyrill was a low-pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds.

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Czarna Kopa

Czarna Kopa (Czech Svorová hora, 1407 m a.s.l.) is a mountain peak situated in the eastern part of Karkonosze on Polish and Czech border within the Karkonosze National Park on the Polish–Czech Friendship Trail.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also Bohemian (lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Czech–Slovak languages

The Czech and Slovak languages form the Czech–Slovak (or Czecho–Slovak) subgroup within the West Slavic languages.

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Czeskie Kamienie

Czeskie Kamienie or Mužské kameny ("Czech Rocks" or "Man Rocks" in Polish and Czech respectively), and Śląskie Kamienie or Dívčí kameny ("Silesian Rocks" or "Maiden Rocks"), is a twin peak and a rock formation situated in the western part of Krkonoše on Polish and Czech border within the Karkonosze National Park on the Polish–Czech Friendship Trail.

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Děčínský Sněžník

The Děčínský Sněžník (Hoher Schneeberg) is a mountain in the Czech Republic and, at above sea level, the highest peak in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.

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Divišov

Divišov (Diwischow) is the market town in the Czech Republic, lying near the Sázava River and Blanice River, southeast of Prague.

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Dvůr Králové nad Labem

Dvůr Králové nad Labem (German: Königinhof an der Elbe) is a town in the Czech Republic in Hradec Králové Region, in the Labe (Elbe) river valley.

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Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik

Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik (born 25 April 1961 in Kielce, Poland) is a Polish linguist specializing in general linguistics and semiotics of communication, employed as professor extraordinarius at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Elbe; Low German: Elv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Elbe Urstromtal

The Elbe Urstromtal (Elbe-Urstromtal) refers to the present-day valley of the Elbe over a length of around between the German town of Genthin, Saxony-Anhalt, and the Elbe's mouth into the North Sea near Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony.

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Elbe Valley

The Elbe Valley (Elbtal or Elbetal) is most often used as a term for that section of the river valley in which most of the quarters of Dresden are located.

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Emil Hlobil

Emil Hlobil (11 October 1901 – 25 January 1987) was a twentieth century Czechoslovakian composer and music professor based in Prague.

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English exonyms

An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym).

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Eupithecia silenata

Eupithecia silenata is a moth of the Geometridae family.

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Fichtelberg

The Fichtelberg is a mountain with two main peaks in the middle of the Ore Mountains in the east German state of Saxony, near the Czech border.

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Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish

Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish is a 2011 short film and a prequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, first shown at Call of Duty XP convention.

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 (Mistrovství světa v klasickém lyžování Liberec 2009) took place 18 February – 1 March 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic.

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František Antonín Nickerl

František Antonín Nickerl (December 4, 1813 in Prague – February 4, 1871 in Prague) was a Czech entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, especially those of the Riesengebirges.

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František Kaván

František Kaván (September 10, 1866, Víchovská Lhota near Jilemnice - December 16, 1941, Libuň near Jičín) was a Czech painter and poet.

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Franz Fühmann

Franz Fühmann (15 January 1922 – 8 July 1984) was a German writer who lived and worked in East Germany.

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Franz Xaver Zippe

Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe (František Xaver Zippe) (15 January 1791 in Nieder Falkenau (now Kytlice) – 22 February 1863 in Vienna), was a Bohemian natural philosopher, scientist and mineralogist.

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Friedel Tietze

Friedel Tietze (1908–1953) was a German luger who competed in the late 1930s.

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Friedrich Klockmann

Friedrich Klockmann (12 April 1858, Schwerin – 17 November 1937, Aachen) was a German geologist and mineralogist.

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Fritz Rieger

Friedrich Edmund "Fritz" Rieger (28 June 1910 – 30 September 1978), was a German conductor.

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Górskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe

Mountain Volunteer Search and Rescue (Górskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe (GOPR)) is a partially volunteer and non-profit Mountain rescue organisation in Poland, helping people endangered while in the mountains; and preventing accidents as well as protecting wildlife.

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Günter Rittner

Günter Rittner (born 11 March 1927, in Breslau, Silesia, Germany) is a German painter and illustrator.

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Główny Szlak Sudecki

Główny Szlak Sudecki (full name Główny Szlak Sudecki im. Mieczysława Orłowicza, which means Mieczysław Orłowicz Main Sudetes Trail in Polish) is a public hiking trail in Poland running along the Sudetes.

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Geography of Poland

Poland is a country in Central Europe with an area of 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq. mi.), and mostly temperate climate.

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Geography of the Czech Republic

The geography of the Czech Republic is quite varied.

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Georg Friedrich Kersting

Georg Friedrich Kersting (31 October 1785 – 1 July 1847) was a German painter, best known for his Biedermeier-style interior paintings and his association with fellow artist Caspar David Friedrich.

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.

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Gerlachovský štít

Gerlachovský štít (translated into English as Gerlachov Peak), informally referred to as Gerlach, is the highest peak in the High Tatras, in Slovakia, and in the whole long Carpathian mountain chain.

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German Combat Games

The Deutsche Kampfspiele (English: German Combat Games) were a national multi-sport event established in 1922 by the Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen under Carl Diem.

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Giant

Giants (from Latin and Ancient Greek: "gigas", cognate giga-) are beings of human appearance, but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures.

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Grafenort concentration camp

The Grafenort concentration camp as treated in the present article is a conventional name for three separate Nazi concentration camps that functioned in the village of Grafenort on the territory of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

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Grzbiet Lasocki

Grzbiet Lasocki is a mountain ridge in the western Sudetes Mountains in southern Poland and northwest portion of the Czech Republic, in the Karkonosze strip.

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Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch

Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch (28 August 1595 – 24 July 1635) was a Silesian nobleman and Generalfeldwachtmeister who fought in the Silesian front of the Thirty Years' War.

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Harrachov

Harrachov (Harrachsdorf) is a town in Semily District, Liberec Region, in the northern Czech Republic, close to the border with Poland.

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Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein

Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein (25 October 1757 – 29 June 1831), commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms that paved the way for the unification of Germany.

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Hercynian Forest

The Hercynian Forest was an ancient and dense forest that stretched eastward from the Rhine River across southern Germany and formed the northern boundary of that part of Europe known to writers of antiquity.

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Hermann Ende

Hermann Gustav Louis Ende (4 March 1829 – 10 August 1907) was a German architect noted for his work in Germany, Japan and elsewhere.

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Hilary Krzysztofiak

Hilary Krzysztofiak (born 28 October 1926 in Szopienice, now a part of Katowice, died 30 September 1979 in Falls Church, Virginia near Washington) was a Polish painter, graphic artist and set designer.

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Hradec Králové

Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Hradec Králové Region of Bohemia.

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Hradec Králové Airport

Hradec Králové Airport is a public domestic and private international airport located about 3 km (1 mi) from Hradec Králové, in east Bohemia, Czech Republic in the town of Hradec Králové.

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Hradec Králové Region

Hradec Králové Region (Královéhradecký kraj,; Kraj hradecki) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-eastern part of the historical region of Bohemia.

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Italian exonyms

Below is list of Italian language exonyms for places in non-Italian-speaking areas of Europe: In recent years, the use of Italian exonyms for lesser known places has significantly decreased, in favour of the foreign toponym.

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Izera railway

Izera railway (Kolej Izerska, Zackenbahn) is a line connecting the Polish town of Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg) with Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau).

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Jablonec nad Jizerou

Jablonec nad Jizerou (Jablonetz) is a town in the Czech Republic in the Semily district of the Liberec region.

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Jan Gebauer

Jan Gebauer (8 October 1838, Úbislavice – 25 May 1907, Prague) was a significant expert on Czech studies and one of the most renowned Czech scientists of all times.

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Javořice

Javořice Jaborschützeberg; Jaworzsycze (Maple hill); (837 metres) is the highest mountain of Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, southern part of Javořice Highlands), Moravia and Bohemia Czech Republic. Located on the historical border between Bohemia and Moravia, and right on trace where runs line of main European drainage divide(do not cross the summit, only runs on southern slope). The average annual temperature is about 3,5 °C. A TV and radio transmitter is situated on the top. The upper platform is used as a facility building by broadcaster. The mountain is also a popular area for skiing.

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Jedlička’s Institute

Jedličkův ústav ("Jedlička’s Institute for Disabled") is a Czech medical and educational institute specialized in the care of disabled children and adults.

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Jelenia Góra

Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg im Riesengebirge; Exonym: Deer Mountain) is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland.

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Jelenia Góra Valley

Jelenia Góra Valley (Kotlina Jeleniogórska; Hirschberger Tal; Literally "Deer Mountain Valley") in Poland is a big valley at the Silesian northern side of the Western Sudetes and next to Kłodzko Valley the largest intramontane basin of the Sudetes.

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Jestřebí hory

The Jestřebí hory (Hawk Mountains) is a mountain range in the Czech Republic, in the Central Sudetes Mountains, in the Western part of Broumovská vrchovina.

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Jičín Airport

Jičín Airport (Letiště Jičín) is a public aerodrome with civil traffic.

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Jilemnice

Jilemnice (Starkenbach) is a town in the Czech Republic.

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Jizera (river)

The Jizera (Iser; Izera) is a river that begins on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic (in Silesia) and ends in Central Bohemia.

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Jizera Mountains

Jizera Mountains (Jizerské hory) or Izera Mountains (Góry Izerskie; Isergebirge) are part of the Western Sudetes on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland.

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Josef Johann Steinmann

Josef Johann Steinmann (8 March 1779 in Lanškroun – 9 July 1833 in Prague) was an Austrian pharmacist and chemist.

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Josef von Löschner

Josef Wilhelm Freiherr von Löschner or in Czech Josef Vilém z Löschneru (May 7, 1809 – April 19, 1888) was an Austrian physician born in Kaaden, Bohemia.

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Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen (the home of the Jotnar) is a mountainous area of roughly 3,500 km² in southern Norway and is part of the long range known as the Scandinavian Mountains.

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Kaczawskie Mountains

The Katzbach Mountains or Kaczawskie Mountains (Góry Kaczawskie; Katzbachgebirge) are a mountain range, roughly 30 kilometres long, in the Western Sudetes in Poland.

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Kamienna Góra

Kamienna Góra (Landeshut, Lanžhot, Kamenná Hora) is a town in south-western Poland with 21,440 inhabitants (2006).

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Kammweg

The Kammweg ("Ridgeway") was a long-distance path opened in 1904 along the crest of the Elster Mountains, Ore Mountains, Bohemian Switzerland, Lusatian Mountains, Ještěd Mountains, Jizera and Giant Mountains, Śnieżnik Mountains and High Ash Mountains.

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Karkonosze National Park

The Karkonosze National Park (Karkonoski Park Narodowy) is a National Park in the Karkonosze (Krkonoše) Mountains in southwestern Poland, along the border with the Czech Republic.

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Karl Georg von Raumer

Karl Georg von Raumer (* 9 April 1783 in Wörlitz; † 2 June 1865 in Erlangen) was a German geologist and educator.

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Karl-Heinz Gerstner

Karl-Heinz Gerstner (15 November 1912 – 14 December 2005) trained as a lawyer and then worked during the war for the German diplomatic service in Paris.

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Karpacz

Karpacz (German: Krummhübel) is a spa town and ski resort in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland, and one of the most important centres for mountain hiking and skiing, including ski jumping.

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Klix Airfield

Flugplatz Klix is a recreational aerodrome in Germany's far East (Saxonia), close to the Czech border.

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Kopaniec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Kopaniec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stara Kamienica, within Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Kotel

Kotel may refer to.

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Královka

Královka (German: Königshöhe) is a stone observation tower situated 859 metres above the sea level on Nekras Hill in the central Jizera Mountains in the area of Janov nad Nisou, less than a kilometre from Bedřichov.

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Kreuzberg (Tempelhofer Berge)

The Kreuzberg (German for Cross Mountain) is a hill in the Kreuzberg locality of Berlin, Germany, in former West Berlin.

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Krkonoše National Park

Krkonoše National Park (Krkonošský národní park, often abbreviated as KRNAP) is a national park in the Liberec and Hradec Králové regions of the Czech Republic.

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Krkonose / Karkonosze

The Krkonose / Karkonosze (Czech:, Polish) is a MAB transboundary biosphere reserve, mixed mountain and highland system designated by UNESCO as Krkonose / Karkonosze Mountains in 1992.

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Krucze Mountains

The Krucze Mountains (Vraní hory, German: Rabengebirge Góry Krucze) are the Eastern part of the Stone Mountains, which belong to the Central Sudetes on the border of the Czech Republic and Poland.

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Lee wave

In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves.

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Liberec Region

Liberec Region (Liberecký kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia.

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List of amphibians of Poland

Poland is inhabited by 18 amphibian species.

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List of highest mountains of the Czech Republic

This is the List of highest mountains of the Czech Republic.

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List of highest paved roads in Europe

This is a list of the highest paved roads in Europe.

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List of minor planets named after people

This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional.

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List of mountain ranges

This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.

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List of mountains in Poland

The Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains mountain ranges are located on either side of Poland's southern border.

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List of Ramsar sites of Poland

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, i.e., to stem the progressive encroachment on and loss of wetlands now and in the future, recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value.

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List of rivers of the Czech Republic

This is a list of rivers of the Czech Republic.

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List of waterbodies in Saxony-Anhalt

Elbe; 1.091 km; rises in the Giant Mountains of the Czech Republic at a height of ca.

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Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia (Dolny Śląsk; Dolní Slezsko; Silesia Inferior; Niederschlesien; Silesian German: Niederschläsing; Dolny Ślůnsk) is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast.

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province (''Polish'': województwo dolnośląskie), in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided.

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Luční hora

Luční hora (Łączna Góra, Hochwiesenberg, literally Meadow Mountain), is the cumulonimbus mountain located in the Krkonoše mountains about 5.5 km northwest of the town Pec pod Sněžkou and 4 km east of the town Špindlerův Mlýn to which cadastral belongs.

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Lubawka

Lubawka (Liebau) is a town in Poland, in Lower Silesia Voivodship, in Kamienna Góra County.

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Lusatian Fault

The Lusatian Fault (Lausitzer Verwerfung), formerly Lusatian Overthrust (Lausitzer Überschiebung), is the most important geological disturbance zone between the Elbe valley and the Giant Mountains.

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Mały Staw

Mały Staw (Polish for The Small Pond) is a natural lake of glacial origin in the Krkonoše mountains in western Poland.

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Mały Szyszak

Mały Szyszak (Czech Malý Šišák, German Kleine Sturmhaube, literally Small Helmet) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland.

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Malá Úpa

Malá Úpa (Kleinaupa) is a village and municipality in the Czech Republic located in eastern part of the Krkonoše Mountains.

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Malé Svatoňovice

Malé Svatoňovice (Klein Schwadowitz) is a village and municipality in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic at the bottom of Jestřebí hory, near the Krkonoše mountain range.

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Marie of Prussia

Marie of Prussia (Marie Friederike Franziska Hedwig von Preußen; October 15, 1825 – May 17, 1889) was Queen of Bavaria and the mother of Kings Ludwig II and Otto of Bavaria.

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Max von Schenckendorff

Max von Schenckendorff (24 February 1875 – 6 July 1943) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Mönchswalder Berg

Mönchswalder Berg is a hill belonging to the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany.

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Mělnická wine

The sub-province Mělník (Czech: Mělnická podoblast) is one two wine regions in Bohemia and consists of 37 official wine municipalities.

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Mountain hut

A mountain hut (also known as alpine hut, mountain shelter, mountain refuge, mountain lodge, and mountain hostel) is a building located high in the mountains, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers, climbers and hikers.

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Mountain Rescue Service of the Czech Republic

The Mountain Rescue Service (Horská služba České republiky, HS ČR) of the Czech republic provides nationwide mountain rescue operations and search and rescue operations in difficult terrains in close cooperations with the Air Rescue Service and Police of the Czech Republic.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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Mute blazes in Czech Krkonoše

Mute blazes in Czech Krkonoše, called also Muttich blazes (muttichovky), is a system of trail blazing used in the Czech part of Krkonoše Mountains.

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Mysłakowice

Mysłakowice (Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf) is a village in Jelenia Góra County (Hirschberg), Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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National Parks of Poland

There are 23 national parks in Poland.

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Náchod

Náchod (Nachod) is a town in the Czech Republic, in the Hradec Králové Region.

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Nesthäkchen's First School Year

Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Anne Marie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl.

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Niedźwiednik

Niedźwiednik may refer to the following places in Poland.

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North Bohemia

North Bohemia (Nordböhmen, Severní Čechy), is a region in the north of the Czech Republic.

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North Slavic fermented cereal soups

In West Slavic and Hungarian countries, fermented rye or wheat, or sourdough, are used to make soups.

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Nový Bor

Nový Bor (Haida) is a town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

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Nový Bydžov

Nový Bydžov (Neubidschow) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Okraj

Okraj (el.) is a mountain pass in Poland and the Czech Republic, on the eastern end of Karkonosze, separating two side ranges of the mountains.

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Opera Corcontica

Opera Corcontica - Scientific Journal from the Krkonoše National Park is a Czech Republic-based yearly journal that publishes peer-reviewed, original papers relating to the Giant Mountains range, in the fields of environmental sciences, geography and geosciences, humanities and social sciences.

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Ore Mountains

The Ore Mountains or Ore Mountain Range (Erzgebirge; Krušné hory; both literally "ore mountains") in Central Europe have formed a natural border between Saxony and Bohemia for around 800 years, from the 12th to the 20th centuries.

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Otakar Lebeda

Otakar Lebeda (8 May 1877, Prague – 12 April 1901, Malá Chuchle, now part of Prague) was a Czech landscape and figure painter.

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Pec pod Sněžkou

Pec pod Sněžkou (Petzer, Pec pod Śnieżką) is a small town at the base of the highest Czech mountain Sněžka, in the Krkonoše Mountains of the Czech Republic.

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Perlan Project

Perlan Project Inc.

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Pers Z S

The Pers Z S was the Signal Intelligence Agency of the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) before and during World War II.

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Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch

Count Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch (3 July 1716 – 5 January 1795) was a German Prince-Bishop of Breslau and an important promoter of music.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Polish exonyms

Below is list of Polish language exonyms for places in non-Polish-speaking areas of Europe.

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Polish–Czech Friendship Trail

The Polish–Czech Friendship Trail (Cesta česko-polského přátelství, Droga Przyjaźni Polsko-Czeskiej) is a public walking path in the Karkonosze Mountains (Giant Mountains).

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Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851)

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Preußen; 3 July 1783, Berlin – 28 September 1851, Berlin) was the son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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Przełęcz Karkonoska

Przełęcz Karkonoska (literally the Karkonosze Pass) is a mountain pass in the central Karkonosze Mountains on the Polish-Czech border.

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Przesieka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Przesieka is a village in Lower Silesia, southwestern Poland.

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Psodos quadrifaria

Psodos quadrifaria is a moth of the Geometridae family.

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PTTK

Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze, PTTK (Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society) is a Polish non-governmental tourist organization with 312 branches across the country.

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Raised bog

Raised bogs (Regenmoore or Hochmoore), also called ombrotrophic bogs (ombrotrophe Moore), are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions.

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Równia pod Śnieżką

Równia pod Śnieżką (1,350–1,450 m a.s.l.) is a subalpine plateau in the Krkonoše mountains west from the peak of Sněžka.

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Rübezahl

Guardian Rübezahl (Liczyrzepa, Duch Gór, Karkonosz, Rzepiór, or Rzepolicz; Krkonoš or Krakonoš) is a folklore mountain spirit (woodwose) of the Krkonoše Mountains (Giant Mountains, Riesengebirge, Karkonosze), a mountain range along the border between the historical lands of Bohemia and Silesia.

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Rokytnice nad Jizerou

Rokytnice nad Jizerou (Rochlitz an der Iser) is a mountain resort in the west part of the Giant Mountains in the Czech Republic.

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Rudník (Trutnov District)

Rudník is a village in the Czech Republic, at the foothills of Giant Mountains.

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Rudolf Kauschka

Rudolf Kauschka (2 October 1883, in Fukov, Bohemia – 2 April 1960, Kempten, West Germany) was a German sportsman, tourist, and mountaineer from Czechoslovakia.

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Słonecznik

Słonecznik may refer to.

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Schaffgotsch family

The Schaffgotsch family is one of the oldest noble Silesian families extant, dating back to the thirteenth century.

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Scheelite

Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4.

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Schwarzwasser (Mulde)

The Schwarzwasser (Černá) is a right tributary of the Zwickauer Mulde in the German state of Saxony and the Czech Republic.

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Second Silesian War

The Second Silesian War was a theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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Shooting sports

Shooting sports is a collective group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in using various types of ranged weapons, mainly referring to man-portable guns (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, rifles and shotguns) and bows/crossbows.

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Sibylle Boden-Gerstner

Sibylle Boden-Gerstner (17 August 1920 – 25 December 2016) was a German costume designer, artist and fashion writer.

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Silesian Wars

The Silesian Wars (Schlesische Kriege) were a series of three wars fought in the mid-18th century between Prussia (under King Frederick the Great) and Austria (under Empress Maria Theresa) for control of Silesia, all three of which ended in Prussian victory.

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Smogornia

Smogornia (Czech Stříbrný hřbet, German Mittagsberg, 1469 m a.s.l.) - peak in the Karkonosze Mountains on Polish and Czech border.

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Smrk (Jizera Mountains)

Smrk (Smrek; Tafelfichte) is the highest mountain in the Czech part of the Jizera Mountains.

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Sněžka

Sněžka or Śnieżka (in Czech and Polish) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the Krkonoše mountains.

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Snow roller

A snow roller is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which large snowballs are formed naturally as chunks of snow are blown along the ground by wind, picking up material along the way, in much the same way that the large snowballs used in snowmen are made.

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Soup

Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, juice, water, or another liquid.

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St. Lawrence's Chapel, Śnieżka

St.

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Status and conservation of the golden eagle

At one time, the golden eagle lived in a great majority of temperate Europe, North Asia, North America, North Africa, and Japan.

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Stave church

A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.

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Stridsvagn m/37

Stridsvagn m/37 (Strv m/37) was a Swedish-built version of the Czechoslovak ČKD AH-IV tankette.

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Suchý vrch

Suchý vrch Dürrer Berg; Suchy szczyt (Dry hill); (995 metres) is the highest (double-peaked) mountain of Bukovohorská mountains, eastern part of Orlické Mountains, Moravia and Bohemia Czech Republic.

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Sudeten Germans

German Bohemians, later known as the Sudeten Germans, were ethnic Germans living in the lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of the state of Czechoslovakia.

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Sudetes

The Sudetes (also known as the Sudeten after their German name; Czech: Krkonošsko-jesenická subprovincie, Sudetská subprovincie, subprovincie Sudety, Sudetská pohoří, Sudetské pohoří, Sudety; Polish: Sudety) are a mountain range in Central Europe.

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Syngrapha ain

Syngrapha ain is a moth of the Noctuidae family.

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Szklarska Poręba

Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau) is a town in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Szrenica

Szrenica (1362 m a.s.l. German Reifträger) is a mountain peak situated in the western part of Karkonosze on Polish and Czech border within the Karkonosze National Park.

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Teufelsberg (disambiguation)

Teufelsberg is German for "Devil's Mountain" or "Devil's Hill" and may refer to.

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Thaddäus Haenke

Thaddeus Xaverius Peregrinus Haenke (5 October 1761 – 4 November 1816) (Tadeáš Haenke; Tadeo Haenke) was a botanist who participated in the Malaspina Expedition, exploring a significant portion of the Pacific basin including the coasts of North and South America, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, and the Marianas.

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The Lonely Tree

The Lonely Tree (German: Der einsame Baum) is an 1822 oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Caspar David Friedrich.

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The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains

The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains (Der Hirt des Riesengebürgs) is a German ballad by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué which was translated into English by Menella Bute Smedley in 1846.

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a 2014 horror adventure video game developed and published by The Astronauts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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The White Tower (Czech Republic)

The White Tower (Bílá věž) is the tallest dominant of the city Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic.

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Tourism in Poland

Poland is a part of the global tourism market with constantly increasing number of visitors.

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Tourism in the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic has become one of the major tourist destinations in Europe.

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Trail blazing

Trail blazing is to make a mark on a tree by slashing the bark to indicate the direction of a trail through forested wilderness.

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Trutnov

Trutnov (Trautenau) is a city in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Urft Dam

The Urft Dam (Urfttalsperre) is a 58.50 metre high dam in the southwestern part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

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Vadim Petrov

Vadim Petrov (born 24 May 1932) is a Czech composer of Russian-Czech descent.

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Vang stave church

Vang stave church (Świątynia Wang; Vang stavkyrkje; Stabkirche Wang) is a stave church which was bought by King Frederick William IV of Prussia and transferred from Vang in the Valdres region of Norway and re-erected in 1842 in Brückenberg near Krummhübel in Silesia, now Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland.

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Václav Jansa

Václav Jansa (22 October 1859, Slatinice, near Most - 29 June 1913, Černošice) was a Czech landscape painter and illustrator; best known for his watercolors of the Staré Město in Prague.

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Velké Svatoňovice

Velké Svatoňovice is a small village in the Czech Republic, near the Karkonosze, established in 1260 C.E. Velké Svatoňovice has approximately 1100 citizens.

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Viktoriapark

The Viktoriapark (aka Victoriapark) is an urban park in the locality of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.

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Vlčí hora

The Vlčí hora (German: Wolfsberg, 581 m) is one of the most prominent peaks in the lowlands of the Šluknov Hook (Šluknovsko) in the Czech Republic.

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Von Roll Holding

Von Roll Holding AG is a Swiss industrial group that operates worldwide in 20 sites (15 production sites).

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Voyen Koreis

Voyen Koreis, also Vojen Korejs (born 14 February 1943, London) is a Czech-Australian author, publicist, translator, visual artist, illustrator and designer.

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Vrchlabí

Vrchlabí (Hohenelbe; Albipolis) is a Czech town in northern part of Hradec Králové Region, in the roots of the Krkonoše Mountains.

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Western Sudetes

The Western Sudetes (Krkonošská oblast; Westsudeten) are the western part of the Sudetes range system on the borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany.

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White Croatia

White Croatia (also Great Croatia or Chrobatia) was the ill-defined homeland of the White Croats in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Wielka Sowa

Wielka Sowa ("Great Owl", Hohe Eule) with a height of is the highest peak of the Owl Mountains, a range of the Central Sudetes.

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Wielki Staw

Wielki Staw (Polish for The Big Pond) - post glacial natural lake in the Krkonoše mountains, in western Poland.

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Wielki Szyszak

Wielki Szyszak (literally Big Wheel) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland.

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Wilhelm Bölsche

Wilhelm Bölsche (2 January 1861, Cologne, Rhenish Prussia – 31 August 1939, Schreiberhau, Riesengebirge) was a German author, editor and publicist.

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Wilhelm Kunst (sculptor)

Wilhelm Kunst (8 August 1909 – 13 January 1986) was a German wood sculptor.

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Wilhelm Schmidding

Wilhelm Schmidding from Bodenbach, Germany, was a World War II constructor of rocket engines used for RATO.

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Wojciech Jaruzelski

Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military officer and politician.

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Woldemar Hottenroth

Woldemar Hottenroth (20 August 1802 in Dresden – 6 September 1894 in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape and genre painter in the Late-Romantic style.

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Wolf Hirth

Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth (28 February 1900 – 25 July 1959) was a German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer.

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Wurmberg Ski Jumps

The Wurmberg ski jumps were a group of ski jumps in the Harz, near the town of Braunlage in Lower Saxony, central Germany.

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Złotoryja

Złotoryja (Goldberg, Latin: Aureus Mons, Aurum) is a historic town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, the administrative seat of Złotoryja County, and of the smaller Gmina Złotoryja.

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Ztohoven

Ztohoven is a Czech guerrilla artist collective known for its artistically motivated pranks.

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Zuzana Čížková

Zuzana Čížková (born 10 December 1982) is a Czech sculptor and painter.

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17th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 17th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany, active before and during World War II.

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2016 in air sports

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Giant Mountains, Gigantei montes, Karkonosze, Karkonosze Mountains, Karkonosze/Krkonose, Karkonosze/Krkonoše, Krkonose, Krkonose Mountains, Krkonoše / Karkonosze, Krkonoše Mountains, Krkono√se, Riesen Mountains, Riesengeberge, Riesengebirge.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krkonoše

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