Svitávka (Blansko District)
Svitávka is a market town in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants. Svitávka lies approximately north of Blansko, north of Brno, and south-east of Prague. Administrative parts The village of Sasina is an administrative part of Svitávka. History The area was populated already in the stone age. The first written mention is from 1284, when King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia approved fortification. In 1583, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II promoted the village to a Městys, market town. References

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Městys
Městys (or, unofficially or obsolete, městečko (literally "small town")), translated as "market town", is a status conferred on certain municipalities in the Czech Republic, lying in terms of size and importance higher than that of simple ''obec'' (municipality), but lower than that of ''město'' (city, town). Historically a ''městys'' was a locality which had the right to stage livestock markets (and some other "extraordinary" and annual markets), and it is therefore translated as "market town". The term went out of official use in Czechoslovakia in 1954, but was reintroduced in the Czech Republic in 2006. As of September 2020, there are 228 municipalities on which the status of ''městys'' has been re-admitted. In all cases, these are municipalities that have requested the return of their former title. This title has not been newly awarded to any municipality that would not have it in the past, the law does not even set any specific criteria for it, only procedural competenc ...
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