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Brno City and its inhabitants
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First written documents mentioning Brno date back to 1091. Brno was always an important trading crossroads for journeys from the Baltic to the Adriatic Sea and from the West to the East.
In the modern history the town became known for the famous Masaryk Race Track and names like Chiron, Nuvolari or Agostini. There is also one of the most beautiful European Exhibition Grounds from the 20s of this century, which is famous not only for important exhibitions but also for the functionalism architecture typical for Brno.
Among famous personalities attached to Brno there were, for instance, the composer Leoš Janáček, the scientist Johan Gregor Mendel, the inventor of water turbine Kaplan, architects Loos and Fuchs, the tennis player Jana Novotná and many others. Brno is also the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and the site of many universities and colleges.
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