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Prague is a city in southeastern Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,386 at the 2010 census, an 11.6 percent increase from 2,138 at the 2000 census.〔(CensusViewer:Prague, Oklahoma Population. ) Retrieved January 19, 2014.〕 Czech immigrants founded the city, and named it for the capital of the Czech Republic with an altered pronunciation of the name. ==History== Czech immigrants settled Prague, after the opening of the Sac and Fox Reservation by a land run on September 22, 1891. Eva Barta owned the land, and named the new town "Prague" for the Czech capital in Europe, then part of Austria-Hungary. The town incorporated in 1902.〔Pritchett, Roger. (''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Prague." ) Retrieved March 6, 2015.〕 On May 24, 1952, a head-on automobile collision seriously injured Indian mystic Meher Baba near Prague.〔Kalchuri, Bhau (1986). Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba. Manifestation.〕 On November 5, 2011 a series of earthquakes struck near Prague, the first one a magnitude 4.7 at 2:15 AM CST, followed by a series of aftershocks, and then a second quake of magnitude 5.6 at 10:53 PM CST, the strongest recorded in Oklahoma history. This continued on November 7, 2011 when another 4.7 hit at 8:45 PM, just five miles northwest of Prague. A F5 tornado tore through Prague on May 5 1960. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prague, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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