What is Karlovy Vary?
[[File:2007-KarlovyVary-143s.jpg|thumb|View of the city centre]] [[Image:Karlovy Vary (CZE) - flag.gif|right|250px]] [[Image:Karlovy Vary COA.svg|right|90px]] '''Karlovy Vary''' ([[German language|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]]. == Other websites == {{Commonscat}} * [http://www.karlovyvary.cz Karlovy Vary webpage] {{authority control}} [[Category:Spa towns in the Czech Republic]] [[Category:Cities in the Czech Republic]] [[Category:Karlovy Vary Region]] {{stub}}