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Ostrava is a twin town to these foreign towns and cities (the year the cooperation started is given in the parentheses and determines the ordering):
Volgograd, Russia, (1947)
Coventry, United Kingdom, (1957)
Katowice, Poland, (1960)
Dresden, Germany, (1971)
Split, Croatia, (1976)
Pireus, Greece, (1997)
Koice, Slovakia, (2001)
Miskolc, Hungary, (2001)
Pittsburg, USA, (2001)
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