Birthplace of Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel

PRAGUE

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The clue "Birthplace of Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel" leads to the answer "PRAGUE" because both Madeleine Albright (the first female U.S. Secretary of State) and Václav Havel (the former President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic) were born in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic.