Odrava (german: Kulsam) is a municipality and village in
Cheb District
Cheb District ( cs, okres Cheb) is a district (''okres'') within the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Cheb. It is the most western District in the Czech Republic.
List of municipalities
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Cheb -
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in the
Karlovy Vary Region
The Karlovy Vary Region or Carlsbad Region ( cs, Karlovarský kraj, German: ''Karlsbader Region'') is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the westernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia. It is named after ...
of the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Dobroše, Mostov, Obilná and Potočiště are administrative parts of Odrava.
Geography
Odrava is located about southwest of
Karlovy Vary and west of
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...
. It lies in the
Cheb Basin
Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře.
Before the 1945 expulsion of the German-speaking population, the town was the centre of the German ...
. It lies at the confluence of the rivers
Odrava and
Ohře
The Ohře () or, slightly less commonly in English sources, the Eger (, Czech also: ''Oharka'' or ''Ohara'', Celtic: ''Agara'', pl, Ohrza), is a 316 km river in Germany (50 km) and the Czech Republic (266 km), left tributary of ...
,
History
The first written mention of Odrava is from 1370.
Transport
The
D6 motorway runs through the municipality.
Gallery
Odrava, old farm.jpg, Old farm
Odrava, local library.jpg, Local library
References
External links
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Villages in Cheb District
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