Svitávka is a market town in
Blansko District
Blansko District ( cs, okres Blansko) is one of seven districts ('' okres'') within South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Blansko.
List of municipalities
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in the
South Moravian Region of the
Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants.
Svitávka lies approximately north of
Blansko, north of
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
, 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
Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–160 ...
promoted the village to a Městys, market town.
References
Populated places in Blansko District
Market towns in the Czech Republic
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