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Cyrus Vance Jr.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Manhattan district attorney 2010–2021, son of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance; led Trump Organization and Weinstein cases, bank fraud forfeitures, and prosecution reforms before Alvin Bragg succeeded him.
Cyrus' campaign against Lydia
Cyrus' campaign against Lydia, also called the Persian conquest of Lydia, was Cyrus II of Persia's 547/546 BC defeat of King Croesus at the Battle of Thymbra and capture of Sardis.
Cyrus's entry into Babylon
Cyrus's entry into Babylon was the entry of the Persian king Cyrus II into Babylon on 29 October 539 BC, after his troops took the city without battle.
Cyrus's rebellion against Astyages
Cyrus's rebellion against Astyages (کوروش) was the revolt of Cyrus II, king of Anshan, against his overlord Astyages, begun in 553 BC and decided in 550 BC.
Cyteir Therapeutics, Inc.
Cyteir Therapeutics was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Lexington, Massachusetts, developing precision oncology medicines targeting DNA damage repair; it went public on Nasdaq in 2021 and announced its dissolution in 2023.
Cytek Biosciences
Cytek Biosciences, formerly Cytoville, Inc., is a cell analysis company based in Fremont, California. It uses patented Full Spectrum Profiling technology and was ordered to pay Beckman Coulter $56 million in 2026.
CytoDyn Inc.
CytoDyn Inc., founded in 2002 as RexRay Corporation and based in Vancouver, Washington, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing the CCR5 monoclonal antibody leronlimab as a treatment for solid tumors.
CytomX Therapeutics
CytomX Therapeutics is a clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company based in South San Francisco, California, that develops masked, conditionally activated biologics called Probody therapeutics for cancer.
Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Academy of Sciences (Akademie věd České republiky, AV ČR), Czech successor of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences under Act 283/1992; 54 public research institutes, over 8,000 employees, president Radomír Pánek, Strategy AV21.
Czech Air Force
Czech Air Force (Vzdušné síly AČR), air arm of the Czech Armed Forces defending Czech airspace within NATINAMDS; 14 leased JAS-39 Gripens, L-159 ALCA, SPYDER air defense, F-35s and C-390s on order, NATO air policing deployments.
Czech banking crisis (1996–2000)
The Czech banking crisis of 1996–2000 was a wave of small-bank failures and the collapse of IPB that cost the state about CZK 370 billion, roughly 24% of GDP.
Czech koruna
The Czech koruna, also known as the Czech crown (koruna česká), is the currency of the Czech Republic, abbreviated Kč and issued exclusively by the Czech National Bank since 1993.
Czech Land Forces
Czech Land Forces (Pozemní síly AČR): principal combat component of the Czech Armed Forces, commanded from Olomouc since 2020 by Maj. Gen. Josef Trojánek; eight formations including the 4th Rapid Deployment and 7th Mechanised Brigades, re-equipping with Leopard 2A4 and CV90.
Czech language
Czech (čeština, český jazyk) is a West Slavic language closest to Slovak, spoken by about 12.5 million people and official in Czechia and the EU; written in Hus's diacritic Latin script, highly inflected with seven cases, and near-fully mutually intelligible with Slovak.
Czech National Bank
The Czech National Bank is the central bank of the Czech Republic and its financial-market supervisor, issuing the koruna and pursuing a 2 percent inflation target since 1993.
Czech National Revival
The Czech National Revival (Czech: národní obrození) was a cultural movement, roughly from the 1770s to the 1840s or 1850s, in which the modern Czech nation formed within the Habsburg monarchy.
Czech National Social Party
Czech National Social Party (ČSNS, Česká strana národně sociální), founded 1897 by Václav Klofáč's national workers; democratic center-left Czech nationalist socialist party, major First Republic governing party, suppressed 1948, marginal today.
Czech Pirate Party
Czech Pirate Party (Piráti), founded 2009 by Jiří Kadeřávek, a social-liberal, digital-democracy party. Won 10.79% and 22 seats in 2017, entered government 2021 with STAN, left cabinet September 2024 after Ivan Bartoš was dismissed.
Czech–German Declaration
The Czech–German Declaration is a political declaration signed in Prague in 1997, in which both countries agreed not to burden relations with issues from the past.
Czech–Slovak currency separation
The Czech–Slovak currency separation (Czech and Slovak: měnová odluka) divided the common Czechoslovak koruna into independent Czech and Slovak currencies on 8 February 1993, five weeks after Czechoslovakia split, by stamping existing banknotes.
Czechoslovak currency reform of 1919
The Czechoslovak currency reform of 1919 (československá měnová reforma) was the set of laws by which the new state created an independent Czechoslovak koruna, planned by finance minister Alois Rašín.
Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence
The Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence, also known as the Washington Declaration, was proclaimed by the Czechoslovak National Council in Washington, D.C., on 18 October 1918, declaring independence from Austria-Hungary.
Czechoslovak Group
Czechoslovak Group is a Czech industrial and defense holding of more than 100 companies, founded by Jaroslav Strnad in 1995 and owned by his son Michal Strnad since 2018.
Czechoslovak koruna
The Czechoslovak koruna (koruna československá; Kčs) was the non-convertible currency of Czechoslovakia from 1919 until February 1993, when it was replaced by the Czech koruna and the Slovak koruna.
Czechoslovak Legion
Czechoslovak Legion: volunteer Czech and Slovak forces (legie, legií) of WWI in Russia, France, and Italy; formed from 1914, took the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1918, evacuated via Vladivostok by 1920, and became the core of the Czechoslovak Army.
Czechoslovak National Council
The Czechoslovak National Council (Československá národní rada) was a Paris exile body founded in 1916, led by Masaryk, Beneš, and Štefánik, that secured Allied recognition of independent Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party
The Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (ČSDSD) was a Czech social democratic party, formed in December 1918 from a party founded in 1878 and a major party of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange
The Hungarian–Slovak population exchange was a bilateral agreement signed in February 1946 under which Czechoslovakia transferred about 77,000 Hungarians to Hungary in return for roughly 60,000 Slovak volunteers.
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia: Central European state of Czechs and Slovaks, proclaimed 28 October 1918 after Austria-Hungary's collapse; Masaryk first president; democracy until 1938 Munich; communist from 1948; Velvet Revolution 1989; dissolved 31 December 1992 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Czechs
Czechs (Češi) are a West Slavic nation of Bohemia and Moravia speaking Czech, about 12 million speakers; statehood from Přemyslid Bohemia through 1918 Czechoslovakia to the 1993 Czech Republic.