(
Polish: ) is a village in
Frýdek-MÃstek District,
Moravian-Silesian Region,
Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of
Třinec in 1980. It lies in the historical region of
Cieszyn Silesia and has a population of 705 (1 January 2008).
The name is of topographic origins derived from
Old Polish verb ''karpić się'' or noun ''karpaty'' denoting ''a ground that is lumpy, scabrous'', in southern Poland adjective ''karpętny'' describes ''uneven, bumpy road''.
Popular folk song in the
regional dialect ''Na Karpyntnej zdechnył kóń (A Horse Died in Karpętna)'' refers to the village.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1552. It belonged then to the
Duchy of Teschen, a
fee of the
Kingdom of Bohemia and a part of the
Habsburg monarchy
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.
After
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Empire, ruled from Vienna, incl ...
a modern
municipal division was introduced in the re-established
Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the
political district of
Cieszyn and the
legal district of
Jablunkov. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 468 in 1880 to 521 in 1910 with all the inhabitants being native Polish-speakers. In terms of religion in 1910 the majority were
Protestants
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(98.1%), followed by
Roman Catholics
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(10 or 1.9%). The village was also traditionally inhabited by
Cieszyn Vlachs
The Cieszyn Vlachs ( pl, WaÅ‚asi cieszyÅ„scy, cs, TěšÃnÅ¡tà ValaÅ¡i) are a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów, one of the four major ethnographic groups in Cieszyn Silesia, t ...
, speaking
Cieszyn Silesian dialect.
After
World War I, fall of
Austria-Hungary,
Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of
Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of
Czechoslovakia. Following the
Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the
Zaolzie region it was annexed by
Poland, administratively adjoined to
Cieszyn County
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Cieszyn County ( pl, powiat cieszyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech and Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result o ...
of
Silesian Voivodeship.
It was then annexed by
Nazi Germany at the beginning of
World War II. After the war it was restored to
Czechoslovakia.
People
* Stanisław Hadyna, founder of
ÅšlÄ…sk Song and Dance Ensemble
*
Karol Daniel Kadłubiec
Karol Daniel Kadłubiec (born 22 July 1937) is a Polish Czech ethnographer, folklorist and historian. He specializes also in ethnology, history of language and dialectology, and in a studies of culture, folklore and language of Cieszyn Silesia ...
, Polish ethnographer, folklorist and historian
See also
*
Polish minority in the Czech Republic
*
Zaolzie
Footnotes
References
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Třinec
Villages in Frýdek-MÃstek District
Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic