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:"This article is on the city. See also Zlin aircraft brand." Zlín , named Gottwaldov during 1949–90, is a city in the Zlín Region, southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River. The development of the modern city is closely connected to the Bata Shoes company. Due to Bata's managerial excellence Zlín became famous for the company's extraordinary social scheme developed after the First World War and its modernist urbanism. History of Zlín: The first written record of Zlín dates back to 1322. Zlín became a town in 1397. Zlín and Tomáš Baťa (1894-1932): The town grew rapidly after Tomáš Baťa founded a shoe factory there in 1894 when the population was approximately 3,000 inhabitants. Baťa's factory supplied the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. Due to the remarkable economic growth of the company and the increasing prosperity of its workers, Baťa himself was elected mayor of Zlín in 1923. Baťa designed the town as he saw fit until his death in 1932, at which time ... Read more about Zlín on Wikipedia

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