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JotunheimJotunheim is the world of the giants (two types: rock and frost, collectively called Jotuns) in the Norse Mythology. From here they menace the humans in Midgard and the gods in Asgard (from whom they are separated by the river Iving. The chief city of Jotunheim is Utgard. Gastropnir[?], home of Menglad[?], and Thrymheim, home of Thiazi, were both located in Jotunheim, which was ruled by King Thrym. Europe
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0.4% Polish, 0.3% Ukrainian, 0.1% Russian, 0.2% other (Jewish, Gypsy)
Religion: 50% Roman Catholic, 20/20.html">20% Protestant, 2% Orthodox, 28% other
Language: Czech and Slovak (official), Hungarian
Literacy: 99%
Labor force: 8,200,000 (1987); 36.9% industry.html">industry, 12.3% agriculture,
formerly regime-controlled; other industry-specific strike committees;
Long-form name: Czechoslovak socialist.html">Socialist republic.html">Republic; abbreviated CSSR;
Republic; because of Slovak concerns about their status in the
Federative Republic on 20 April 1990
Type: in transition from Communist state to republic
Capital: Prague
Administrative divisions: 2 socialist republics (socialisticke
Republika, Slovenska Socialisticka Republika
Independence: 18 October 1918 (from Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Constitution: 11 July 1960; amended in 1968 and 1970; new
by Communist legal theory; no judicial review of legislative acts; has not
of the Liberation), 9 May (1945)
Executive branch: president, prime minister, Cabinet
Legislative branch: bicameral Federal Assembly (Federalni
(Snemovna Narodu) and a lower house or House of the People
(since 28 December 1989);
Head of Government--Premier Marian CALFA (since
7 December 1989); Jan CARNOGURSKY (since 7 December 1989)
Political parties and leaders: Civic Forum, since December 1989
by President Vaclav Havel; Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
toppled from power in November 1989 by massive antiregime
December 1989
Suffrage: universal at age 18
Elections:
will be a free election.html">election);
be held 8 June 1990; will be a free election);
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