Žebrák () is a town in
Beroun District
Beroun District ( cs, okres Beroun) is a district ('' okres'') within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Beroun.
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in the
Central Bohemian Region of the
Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village od Sedlec is an administrative part of Žebrák.
History
The first written mention of Žebrák is from 1280. In 1396, it was raised to a town by King
Wenceslaus IV
Wenceslaus IV (also ''Wenceslas''; cs, Václav; german: Wenzel, nicknamed "the Idle"; 26 February 136116 August 1419), also known as Wenceslaus of Luxembourg, was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he w ...
.
Notable people
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Vojtěch Nejedlý
Vojtěch Nejedlý (17 April 1772, in Žebrák – 7 December 1844, in Žebrák) was a Czech
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** Czechs, the people of the area
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(1772–1844), writer
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Oldřich Nejedlý
Oldřich Nejedlý (26 December 1909 – 11 June 1990) was a Czechs, Czech Association football, footballer, who spent his entire professional career at Sparta Prague as an Forward (association football)#Inside forward, inside-forward. He is cons ...
(1909–1990), footballer
Trivia
On 14 May 2021, asteroid
131181 Žebrák, discovered by astronomers
Petr Pravec and
Lenka Kotková
Lenka Kotková ('' née'' Šarounová; born 26 July 1973) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.
She works at Observatoř Ondřejov (Ondřejov Observatory), located near Prague. Besides numerous main-belt asteroids she also ...
at
Ondřejov Observatory
The Ondřejov Observatory (; cs, Observatoř Ondřejov) is the principal observatory of the Astronomical Institute () of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is located near the village of Ondřejov, southeast of Prague, Czech R ...
in 2001, was by the
Working Group Small Body Nomenclature after the village.
References
External links
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Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in the Beroun District
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