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Prague is one of the most beautiful capitals in Europe and in the world. Prague combines perfect the modern with the old, the east with the west, the contemporary and the conservative. But above all are the people that really do the difference in Prague.

Because without people there would be no history, no present and no future. A vivid metropolis full of nightlife, shopping streets and life.

The history of Prague dates back in the ancient period of the Celtic Boii people who built the city in approximately 500 BC. After that period the Germanic tribe Marcomanni migrated to Bohemia with its king, Maroboduu.

The city flourished during the 14th century during the reign of Charles IV, of the Luxembourg dynasty. Charles was the eldest son of Czech Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and John of Luxembourg. He became King of Bohemia upon the death of his father in 1346. On April 7, 1348 he founded the first university in central, northern and eastern Europe, now called Charles University, the oldest Czech university. In the same year with inspiration of Paris he also founded New Town with adjacent to the Old Town. Charles rebuilt Prague Castle and Vysehrad, and a new bridge was erected, now called the Charles Bridge. The construction of St. Vitus' Cathedral had also begun. Many new churches were founded. In 1355, Charles was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in Rome and Prague became the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

Charles wanted Prague to become one of the most beautiful cities in the world and to make it a new center of art, science and prestige. He wanted Prague to be the dominant city of the whole empire, with Prague Castle as the dominant site in the city and the stately Gothic Cathedral to be more dominant than Prague Castle. During the reign of Emperor Charles IV, the Czech Lands were among the most powerful in Europe.

In 1689 a great fire devastated[3] Prague, but this spurred a renovation and a rebuilding of the city. The economic rise continued through the following century, and in 1771 the city had 80.000 inhabitants.

For most of its history Prague had been an ethnically mixed city with populations from different countries. Prague had German-speaking near-majority in 1848, but by 1880 the German population decreased to 13.52%, and by 1910 to 5.97%, due to a massive increase of the city's overall population caused by the increase of Czechs from the rest of Bohemia and Moravia. As a result, the German minority along with the German-speaking Jewish community remained mainly in the central, ancient parts of city, while the Czechs had a near-absolute majority in the fast-growing suburbs of Prague.

In 1938 population the population of Praugue reached the 1.000.000 mark.