Zlín

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Statistics

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Area: 119 km?

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Population: 79,177 (2003)

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Zl?n (named Gottwaldov during 1948–90) is a city in Zl?nsk? kraj (region), in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Drevnice River, at .

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The first written record of Zl?n dates from 1332. The town grew rapidly after Tom?? Ba?a founded a shoe factory there in 1894, which came to supply the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. Ba?a designed the town as he saw fit until his death in 1932. His son Thomas was forced to leave by the Nazis in 1939 and again after the war when the Ba?a company was nationalized. (He left for Canada where he founded another model community, named Batawa).

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Zl?n was merged in 1948 with several surrounding communities to form Gottwaldov, named after the first communist president of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gottwald. In 1990 the whole city was renamed Zl?n.

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1948: 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)....

90: Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century...

Moravia: Moravia (Czech and Slovak: Morava, German: M?hren, Polish: Morawy, Hungarian: Morvaorsz?g) is an historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. It takes its name from the River Morava which rises in the north-west of the region....