Between the start of the competition in and , Dukla played more matches in the European Cup than any other team in Czechoslovakia.

Dukla Prague football club was connected to clubs of other sports, but this connection continues no longer. However, separate athletics , rowing , handball , modern pentathlon , cycling etc.

In contrast to the football clubs, these are still under patronage of the Czech Army. The —61 season marked the inaugural season of the Czechoslovak Cup.

Dukla was represented by seven players on the Czechoslovakia national football team , [5] which reached the final before losing to Brazil.

Dukla star Josef Masopust scored in the final as Brazil won 3—1, and was later named as the winner of the Ballon d'Or.

Dukla spent the next two seasons winning the league again, making a total of four titles in a row. The —65 season yielded just the Cup before Dukla completed its second double in — In the first nine seasons of the cup competition, therefore, Dukla had reached six finals and won four titles.

The competition's format changed after the —69 season, and it was not until —81 that Dukla would record another title in the competition, repeating the achievement in —83, —85 and — Between the start of the competition in and , Dukla played more matches in the European Cup 45 than any other team in Czechoslovakia.

The supremacy of Dukla was so undisputed the organizers decided to establish the American Challenge Cup as the final of next International Soccer League editions, in which Dukla was invited to play against the winners of the group stage.

Fans of the band have created considerable demand for replica Dukla Prague shirts and made the team a favourite among hipster football fans.

Dukla's overall record in the International Soccer League and the American Challenge Cup thus comprises 11 wins, four draws and one loss with a score of 49— The name of Dukla Prague disappeared from the Czech football for several years, but not forever.

Dukla Dejvice, a local Prague team founded in , began playing at Juliska stadium and adopted Dukla Prague's yellow and red colours.

It is not known which tribe settled here, and most probably, Dukla belonged for some time to Great Moravia , although it is not documented.

Some time in the 10th century, Dukla was annexed by the early Polish state, ruled by the Polans. In the nearby village of Wietrzno there was a defensive gord , whose traces can still be seen.

The village of Dukla was first mentioned in documents from as part of the lands gifted to Janusz Suchywilk by his relatives.

In , the town was destroyed in a raid of Hungarian army of King Matthias Corvinus. The new owner expanded the Dukla Castle, and received from King Sigismund I the Old a privilege, allowing him to organize two fairs a year.

Dukla remained in the hands of the Jordan family until , and in , King Sigismund III established here a customs office. In the early 17th century, Dukla emerged as an important center of commerce, located on a trade route joining Poland with Hungary.

The town had a defensive wall with two towers, and a town hall. Its merchants traded Hungarian wine, which at that time was very popular among Polish nobility.

In , Franciszek Mniszech began construction of a new palace, which was completed by his son Jan Mniszech. After the wars, the town declined.

Furthermore, Dukla was again destroyed in the Great Northern War , and its wooden houses burned in , , , and Together with his wife, Mniszech turned the town into a cultural center of the region, with a theatre, orchestra and a Masonic lodge.

In Jerzy Mniszech wrote a constitution for Dukla, in which he stated that all children were subject to education, regardless of their creed.

In the spring of , Dukla was the center of Bar Confederation. In May , after a number of skirmishes, Dukla was captured by Austrian soldiers, which marked First Partition of Poland.

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We spent a great deal of time organizing this information so that your genealogical search might be more rewarding Near, there is also a building of an old Jewish school Jan The Dukla Cemetery: South of Dukla lies the Jewish cemeteries; the so-called old cemetery, from the 18th century and the "new" cemetery somewhat later.

In the "old cemetery" dozens of tombstones have survived, but are in poor condition and the cemetery was overgrown. There have been many efforts to restore the cemeteries.

The new cemetery now has a wall and about two hundred well-preserved tombstones. From Simone Weissman June Genealogical Information JewishGen's Dukla Page -- maps and town history and governments, and links to nearby towns, researchers, yizkor books and more!!

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Click here to search the JewishGen Family Finder database. A Postcard of Dukla. Landowners , in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv Note that for vital records in Poland today there is an year privacy policy.

I have some information on records within this period Certainly i would hope that if anyone hires a researcher for this town, or gets records from this town, they would share that with the rest of us.

I am dedicated to putting on this web page anything i receive from fellow researchers. In , the Polish State Archive commenced a program to digitize their collections of vital records.

Each Regional Archive independently made its decision on how to create the digital images and where to host the Many of the regional Archives images are hosted on the website of the National Digital Archive Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe.

And I suspect it will change again soon.