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119: 174: 22: 304: 201:. The palace was soon unable to accommodate the wealth of material, therefore the archives were housed in eight different buildings, some of them were located outside Prague. The new archive building was built in 1997 in the Prague district of 189:. During the fire of the Old Town Hall on 8 May 1945, a part of the archive was destroyed, but fortunately the majority of the historical documents were evacuated outside Prague. After the end of the 217:
contains 8,427 official books relating to the four medieval Prague towns and several hundred literary, religious and scientific or academic manuscripts. It has a collection of over 200,000
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and paper documents. The archives has also a large library containing over 150,000 oriented chiefly towards the history of Prague and its present-day life.
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The archive currently administers 19,000 meters in length of archive material and 3,000 meters of books, newspapers and magazines. The collection of
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The Prague City Archives was founded as an independent specialized institution in 1851. Since that time it was located on the ground floor of the
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in the Old Town of Prague, which serves as the venue for cultural events of the Archives
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the Prague City Archives is one of the largest and most important
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The oldest document kept in the archives is the so-called
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