Karlovy Vary

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Karlovy Vary (German: Karlsbad) is a city in the Czech Republic. As of 2015, about 50,000 people were living there. It is located in the west of the historical region of Bohemia. It is popular for its spa.

The city was in Austria-Hungary, and the people who lived there were mainly German-speaking. Bohemia was transferred to the new state of Czechoslovakia after World War I. The existence of such German-speaking peoples outside of Germany was used by Hitler as a reason to invade the Sudetenland (the German-speaking part of Bohemia and Moravia), which Germany did in 1938. This was a result of the Munich Agreement. This event was a prelude to World War II.

Karlovy Vary Media

• Marktplatz in Karlsbad in the 1850s.jpg

  Marktplatz in Karlsbad. Litography by C. Waage in "Album von Karlsbad", around 1850.

• Karlovy Vary colonnade 1..jpg

  You can find fountains of medicinal water under this colonnade.

• Karlsbad-Kirche.jpg

  Church of St. Mary Magdalene

• KV-Kurbad-I-2.jpg

  Císařské lázně spa building

• Orthodox Church of Saint Peter and Paul

• Petr Veliký, památník - panoramio.jpg

  Peter the Great Monument

• P9040307 Beethoven´s Monument in Karlovy Vary Carlsbad.JPG

  Ludwig van Beethoven Monument

• Karlovy Vary Goethova vyhlídka (2).jpg

  Goethova vyhlídka nad Karlovými Vary na Výšině věčného života

Other websites

• Karlovy Vary webpage