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 Country  City  Opened  Closed  Notes
         
 Bosnia  Sarajevo  23 NO 1984  (operating)   Service discontinued during Bosnian war due to damage to system and buses. Service resumed after end of hostilities.
   1      Number of electric trolleybus systems in Bosnia
         
 Croatia  Rijeka  1952   1971  Operated Fiats and Alfa Romeos, and experimented with one Shkoda.
   Split  1944  1972  
   2      Number of electric trolleybus systems in Croatia
         
 Czech Republic  Brno  30 JL 1949  (operating)  
   C^eske Budejovice I  4 OC 1909  1914  (Budweis). Stoll system
   C^eske Budejovice II  26 OC 1948  24 SE 1971  
   C^eske Budejovice III  2 MY 1991  (operating)  
   C^eske Valence  1907  1918  Connected to Gmünd. See Gmünd.
   Chomutov-Jirkov  1995  (operating)  
   De^c^in  6 JA 1950  14 DE 1973  
   Hradec Kralove  2 MY 1949  (operating)  
   Jihlava  19 DE 1948  (operating)  
 Litvínov  6 DE 1946  31 JA 1959
   Marianske Lazne  1952  (operating)  
   Most-Litvinov  6 DE 1946  31 JA 1959  
   Opava  24 AU 1952  (operating)  
   Ostrava  9 MY 1952  (operating)  
   Pardubice  20 JA 1952  (operating)  
   Plzhen  9 AP 1941  (operating)  (Pilsen)
   Praha (Prague)  29 AU 1936  16 OC 1972  
   Teplice   1 MY 1952  (operating)  
   Usti nad Labem (Aussig an der Elbe)  1 JL 1988  (operating)  
   Zlin (Gottwaldov)  1 JL 1944  (operating)  One line goes to the town of Okrokovice (13,000) and is thus a suburban (interurban?) line. Many trips are local to the Zlin city limits (90,000). Okrokovice has no local service.
   20       All time number of electric trolleybus systems in the Chezch Republic
         
 Greece   Athens  19--  (operating)  
   Piraeus  19--  (operating)  Connected to the Athens system via non-revenue wire.
   2       All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Greece.
         
 Hungary  Budapest I  16 DE 1933  1944/45  Original had left side running. Converted to right side running shortly before WWII.
   Budapest II  29 DE 1949  (operating)  Operates ZIUs (2-axle), Ikarus (articulated).
   Debrecen  2 JL 1985  (operating)  Operates ZIU 682s and Ikarus 280s.
   Szeged  29 AP 1979  (operating)  Operates 47 ZIU 682s and various Ikarus 280 (10) and 11 Shkoda 15Trs and one 14 Tr.
   4       All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Hungary.
         
 Latvia  Riga  4 NO 1947  (operating)  A trial line operated from February. It is not known what happened to the trial line.
   1        All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Latvia.
         
 Lithuania  Kaunas  1948  (operating)  
   Vilnius  1957  (operating)  
   2        All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Lithuania.
         
 Moldova   Balti   21 JN 1972  (operating)  
   Bendery  19--  (operating)  
   Bendery -- Tiraspol  19--  (operating)  Interurban or suburban system ?
   Chisinau  19--  (operating)  
   Solonceni  1 MY 1992  3 JA 1994  A one route, one trolleybus line buuilt by a sovkhos. There was no special work. Came to end when new director of sovkhox ordered the electricity cut off to the system
   Tiraspol  1 NO 1967  (operating)  
 6 All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Moldova.
 Poland  Debice  1988  12 NO 1998  System had 9 Jelcz PR110Es. These went to Gdynia ahd Lublin.
   Gdynia  18 SE 1943  (operating)  Includes line to Sopot. Called Gdingen in 1943 as it was part of Germanyu.
   Gorzow Wlk   July 1943  30 JA 1945  Called Landsberg as it was part of Germany in 1943.
   Legnicka I  1943  JA 1945  Called Liegnitz as it was part of Germany in 1943.
   Legnicka II  1949  1959  
   Lublin  21 JL 1953  (operating)  
   Olsztyn I  15 SE 1939  1945  Called Allenstein as it was part of Germany in 1943.
   Olsztyn II   DE 1953  1 AU 1973  
   Poznan  12 FE 1930  28 MR 1970  
   Slupsk  22 JL 1985  17 SE 1999  Date last trolleybus operated. The official closing date is said to be 1 OC 99.
   Straszecin  1988  1994  (or 1995). Part of Debice sstem.
   Tychy  1 OC 1982  (operating)  Reported to be closed in 1999, but other sources say that it is still operating.
   Walbrzych   1944  1973  
   Warsaw #1  5 JA 1946  30 JN 1973  
   Warsaw #2  1 JN 1983  21 AU 1995  
   Wroclaw  16 MR 1912  1913  Köhler-Lloyd system. Called Breslau, part of Germany then.
 16  All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Poland.
 Serbia  Beograd (Belgrade)  1 MY 1947  (operating)   System shut down along with streetcar system during 1999 Kosovo crisis when electricity plants bombed.
 Slovakia  Banska Bystrica  19--  31 JA 05  Neighbouring town took over system, replacing the trolleys with diesels. Should be operating again soon.
   Bratislava I  19 JL 1909  1915  Stoll system. Bratislava was in Austria-Hungary at this time and called Pressburg.
   Bratislava II  1941  (operating)  Operation suspended from April 1945 to 1946 because of WWII.
   Koshice  27 SE 1993  (operating)  
   Poprad  2 AU 1904  1906  Stoll system. Operated 3 AEGs. Operated between Poprad and Stary Smokovec. This line replace by a famous electric railway line after a two year lapse.
   Presov  13 MY 1962  (operating)  
   Zhilina  1994  (operating)  
 8      All time number of electric trolleybus systems in Slovakia.
 Slovenia  Ljubljana  1952  4 SE 1971  
   Pirano  24 OC 1909  19 JL 1913  Schiemann system. Replaced with a streetcar (tram) system.

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