I am trying to find as many items associated with the czech republic
(or prague) as possible.  national Flower? National Tree? National
Song. National Cheese?
Additionally anything very closely associated with Prague would also
be of interest.  Do they have a city flower or  county alcohol?

Hi czechcurious,

The following is the result of my research for national symbols/items
(where there are any) of the Czech Republic:


NATIONAL ANTHEM: "Where is My Home"

Study Czech Republic
http://www.epsaweb.org/study_czech_republic_2.htm

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NATIONAL TREE: Lime

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_flower

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NATIONAL EMBLEM: Lion

Psych Central
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/National_flower

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NATIONAL FLAG

Country Reports
http://www.countryreports.org/flags.aspx?countryid=65&countryName=Czech%20Republic&m=c

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NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Czech Founding Day, 28 October (1918) 

Study Czech Republic
http://www.epsaweb.org/study_-_czech_republic.htm

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NATIONAL SEAL

Czech
http://www.czechcentrum.cz/index.php?section=3&menu=131

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NATIONAL MOTTO: "Truth prevails"

The Free Dictionary
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/czech%20republic

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Prague Symbols:

Flag

AllStates-Flag
http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/flags/cz-11-.html#pr

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Coat of Arms

AllStates-Flag
http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/flags/cz-11-.html#coa



Search criteria:
"Czech Republic" "national symbols" 
"Czech Republic" "national <item>" 
Prague "city flag"
Prague city symbols


I hope the information provided is helpful. If you have any questions
regarding my answer please don?t hesitate to ask before rating it.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Answer Clarification by czechcurious-ga on 27 Sep 2005 07:13 PDT

I was hoping there would be more items rather than just flag and seal
etc but I guess your search confirms that they don't have such things.

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Clarification of Answer by rainbow-ga on 27 Sep 2005 07:43 PDT

Hi czechcurious,

Thank you very much for the rating.

As you will note from the following site, the Czech Republic has no national bird:
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/CountryIndex.htm


I found two references for the national flower being the rose.
However, I am not certain how authoratative these links are:

http://www.plantzafrica.com/miscell/floweremblems.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/flowers/pcd17.html


I hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Rainbow

Made a stellar effort thank you for trying so hard :)

One correction ( possible typo (lipa->lime)

 national tree is not lime --  climate is too cold for that

 národní strom: lípa malolistá.
http://www.iearn.cz/pro/031.htm
http://www.ptejteseknihovny.cz/list.php?all=1&conspect=10&lib=

Lípa in English is  linden (german name of this tree)



Flower is   peonies 	czech pivo?ky 	noun, plural, botany 
..zdobily snad ka?dou ?eskou zahrádku, jejich p?vodní ? pivem ?
Vysv?tlení ?eského jména pivo?ky nezap?e ? nos toho, kdo hojn? pil
pivo (von?l k pivu). A pak ?e pivo?ky nejsou ?eskou národní kv?tinou!
?ekové znali pivo?ku jako dekorativní i lé?ivou..
http://www.i-receptar.cz/index.php?fce=article&article=1902

Name is probably corruption of Peonies (from latin) even though folk etymology
above relates that to 'pivo' (national drink) which would be quite appropriate
considering that each county has it's own beer as apparent from

CZECH BEER FAQ - Radio Prague
- History of Czech Beer! Beer is considered a part of the national
heritage of the ...
www.radio.cz/en/article/46095

etc etc

Hedgie

Hedgie