Hlinka
Encyclopedia
Hlinka is a Czech
and Slovak
surname. Famous name bearers are:
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
and Slovak
Slovak language
Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
surname. Famous name bearers are:
- Andrej HlinkaAndrej HlinkaAndrej Hlinka was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest, one of the most important Slovak public activists in Czechoslovakia before Second World War...
, fascist politician and Catholic priest, important activist in the pre-WWII Czechoslovakia, leader of the SĽSSlovak People's PartyThe Slovak People's Party was a Slovak right-wing party and was described as a fascist and...
. See also Hlinka GuardHlinka GuardHlinka Guard was the militia maintained by the Slovak People's Party in the period from 1938 to 1945; it was named after Andrej Hlinka.The Hlinka Guard was preceded by the Rodobrana organization, which existed from 1923 to 1927, when the Czechoslovak authorities ordered its dissolution...
. - Ivan HlinkaIvan HlinkaIvan Hlinka was a Czech professional ice hockey player and coach. He was one of the most important figures in Czech ice hockey.-Playing career:...
, Czech ice hockey player and coach - Jaroslav HlinkaJaroslav HlinkaJaroslav Hlinka is a Czech professional ice hockey forward, currently playing for Linköpings HC in the Swedish Elitserien.-Playing career:Hlinka began playing ice hockey at the age of four...
, Czech ice hockey player - Miroslav HlinkaMiroslav HlinkaMiroslav Hlinka is a Slovakian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing in the Slovak Extraliga.-External links:...
, Slovak ice hockey player - Jiri HlinkaJiri HlinkaJiri Hlinka — Norwegian music teacher and composer of Czech origin.He graduated from Prague Academy of Music, was a student of Frantisek Rauch and Joseph Palenichek. From 1966, he started giving concerts, one which got him an acclaim from Russian people when he played Pyotr Tchaikovsky's music in...
, piano professor at the Grieg Academy of Music in BergenBergenBergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....
. - Paulina Hlinka, a fictional character in the Bert diaries