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Česká Lípa
Česká Lípa (; ) is a town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 37,000 inhabitants, making it the most populated Czech town without city status. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Česká Lípa consists of 14 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Česká Lípa (33,028) *Častolovice (109) *Dobranov (383) *Dolní Libchava (551) *Dubice (407) *Heřmaničky (40) *Lada (258) *Manušice (90) *Okřešice (68) *Písečná (83) *Stará Lípa (331) *Vítkov (95) *Vlčí Důl (28) *Žizníkov (419) Etymology The word Lípa means 'lime tree'. The settlement was probably founded near some old memorial lime tree. Later it was renamed ''Lipá'' (adjective from Lípa). After the German name ''Böhmisch Leipa'' ('Bohemian Lipá') appeared, the Czech name Česká Lípa was derived from it. Geography Česká Lípa is located about west of Liberec and north of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obec
(, ; plural ) is the Czech and Slovak word for a municipality (in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia and abroad). The literal meaning of the word is " commune" or " community". It is the smallest administrative unit that is governed by elected representatives. Cities and towns are also municipalities. Definition The legal definition (according to the Czech code of law with similar definition in the Slovak code of law) is: ''"The municipality is a basic territorial self-governing community of citizens; it forms a territorial unit, which is defined by the boundary of the municipality."'' Every municipality is composed of one or more cadastral areas. Every municipality is also composed of one or more municipal parts (), which are usually town quarters or villages. A municipality can have its own flag and coat of arms. Czech Republic Almost the entire area of the Czech Republic is divided into municipalities, with the only exception being military training areas. The smaller mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viadukt Nad Ploučnicí
Viadukt is a Croatian civil engineering company, specialised in the areas of bridge, tunnel and road engineering. Other business activities of the company include construction and reconstruction of urban streets. The most significant works performed by the company include: significant sections of the A1, A3 and A5 motorways, a number of motorway viaducts, including Osojnik, Draga, Zečeve Drage, Dobra, Drežnik, Limska Draga etc., as well as Bajer Bridge (a part of the A6 motorway) and Sava River Bridge (a part of the A2 motorway). The company is also employed for execution of the construction works at the Pelješac Bridge The Pelješac Bridge (, ) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia. The bridge provides a fixed link from the southeastern Croatian semi-exclave to the rest of the country while bypassing Bosnia and Herzegovina's short coast .... Also, the company has executed a number of significant tunnels, including Tuhobić Tunnel, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hynek Berka Of Dubá
Hynek Berka of Dubá (; c. 1297 – 1348) was a Bohemian knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church, or the country, especially in a military capacity. The concept of a knighthood ... and founder of the Berka of Dubá aristocracy line. In 1320 he had the Kokořín Castle built. Relatives * Adam Berka of Dubá * Zbyněk Berka of Dubá References 14th-century people from Bohemia {{Czech-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kravaře
Kravaře (; ) is a town in Opava District the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,700 inhabitants. It is part of the historic Hlučín Region. Administrative division Kravaře consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Kravaře (4,585) *Dvořisko (322) *Kouty (1,630) Geography Kravaře is located about east of Opava and northwest of Ostrava. It lies in the Głubczyce Plateau, Opava Hilly Land. The town is situated on the left bank of the Opava (river), Opava River. History The first written mention of Kravaře is from 1224. Kouty was first mentioned in 1238 and Dvořisko in the second half of the 18th century. Between 1224 and 1263, the Kravaře estate was acquired by the lords from Benešov, who were further known as lords of Kravaře. From 13th to 15th century, it was one of the richest families in Moravia. In the second half of the 13th century, they had built a fortress in Kravaře. The last owner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Bohemia
North Bohemia (, ) is a region in the north of the Czech Republic. Location North Bohemia roughly covers the present-day NUTS regional unit of ''CZ04 Severozápad'' and the western part of ''CZ05 Severovýchod''. From an administrative perspective, North Bohemia is made up of the present day Ústí nad Labem Region, Karlovy Vary Region and Liberec Region. In German language usage the term ''Nordböhmen'' (North Bohemia) often refers to that part of the Sudetenland once mainly populated by Germans in North Bohemia between Karlovy Vary in the west and the Krkonoše in the east. Geography and nature North Bohemia is divided into many landscape areas including the Ore Mountains, the Bohemian Switzerland national park, Mácha’s Country, the Lusatian Mountains and Ještěd Ridge, Frýdlantsko and the Jizera Mountains. It is a popular tourist destination, much of which had been inaccessible until recently. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Of Lipá
Henry of Lipá (Czech language, Czech: ''Jindřich z Lipé''; died 26 August 1329) was a prominent Czechs, Czech nobleman, marshal, and powerful magnate in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Biography Henry was born to the prominent Ronovci, Ronovci family, though the date of his birth remains unknown. Henry is traditionally considered to be the son of Chval of Lipá. However, some research suggests that there is a missing generation, and that Henry and his brother Čeněk of Oybin may be the grandsons of Chval instead. It has been proposed that Chval's son Čeněk of Lipá is not identical to Čeněk of Oybin, and perhaps the two brothers are the sons of the elder Čeněk. Henry first appears in documents from the royal court of Prague in 1296 with his brother Čeněk.Sovadina, 8 He fought against the King Albert I of Germany, defending Kutná Hora in 1304 together with his friend . He began to appear more regularly on documents from 1306, and he was counted among the country's most impor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronovci
The Ronovci (also Hronovci or Ronovici) were one of the oldest and most important Czech noble families. The first reports of their existence date from the end of the 12th century and are associated with Tuhány, central Bohemia and later with Bautzen, Zittau and northern Bohemia, especially Česká Lípa region. Over time, the family grew into many branches, e.g. lords of Dubá, Berka of Dubá, Lichtenburk, Křinecký of Ronov, etc. Origin The oldest known member of the family at the end of the 12th century was Smil Světlík from Tuháň. However, it is not documented whether it is Tuhaň, located approximately 4.5 km west from Dubá in Česká Lípa District, or Tuhaň in Slaný, which is now in the territory of Kladno-Švermov. The opinions of historians starting with František Palacký differ. At the beginning of the 13th century, Smil held Vojnica near Libochovice. He and his sons Jindřich and Častolov are mentioned in the years 1200–1227 as owners of various se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chval Of Lipá
Chval of Lipá (also known as Chval of Zittau; born and died in the 13th century) was a Czech nobleman from the Ronovci family and the founder of the family of the . Biography He was the grandson of the first known ancestor of the Ronovci family, , as the youngest son of . He appears sporadically in historical sources from 1253 to 1262, probably holding Zittau, Oybin and . Chval likely founded Lipý castle, around which the town Česká Lípa later arose. Chval's son Čeněk was the first to use the epithet ''of Lipá'' in 1277. Chval is considered to be the father of Henry of Lipá Henry of Lipá (Czech language, Czech: ''Jindřich z Lipé''; died 26 August 1329) was a prominent Czechs, Czech nobleman, marshal, and powerful magnate in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Biography Henry was born to the prominent Ronovci, Ronovci famil ... and Čeněk of Oybin. However, some research suggests that there is a missing generation, and Chval is their grandfather instead. It has been prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zittau
Zittau (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, Upper Lusatian dialect: ''Sitte''; ) is the southeasternmost city in the Germany, German state of Saxony, and belongs to the Görlitz (district), district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost Districts of Germany, district. Zittau is located in Upper Lusatia, the southern part of Lusatia, on the Mandau and Lusatian Neisse rivers, in the foreland of the Zittau Mountains. The city has a population of around 25,000 and is located directly on the western edge of the Turów Coal Mine, one of the largest artificial holes visible from Outer space, space, on the other side of the Lusatian Neisse. The ''Großes Zittauer Fastentuch'' (Great Zittau Lenten Cloth) is, along with the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most impressive textile works in Western tradition. It is the third-largest existing Lenten veil. It was made in Zittau in 1472 and is now exhibited in the secularized ''Kreuzkirche, Zittau, Kirche zum Heiligen Kreuz'', that belongs to the Zittau Muni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavs
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Early Slavs lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD), and came to control large parts of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe between the sixth and seventh centuries. Beginning in the 7th century, they were gradually Christianized. By the 12th century, they formed the core population of a number of medieval Christian states: East Slavs in the Kievan Rus', South Slavs in the Bulgarian Empire, the Principality of Serbia, the Duchy of Croatia and the Banate of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svitavka
The Svitavka (also called Svitávka; ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Germany, a right tributary of the Ploučnice. It flows mostly through the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic, but it originates in Saxony in Germany. It is long. Etymology The name referred to the clear water of the river and was derived from ''svítat'', which meant ' eclear' in Old Czech. Svitavka/Svitávka is a diminutive form of Svitava (a village, today a part of Cvikov). The river was called Svitávka until the 1990s, when it was officially renamed Svitavka, but it is still often called Svitávka. Characteristic The Svitavka originates in the territory of Jonsdorf in the Lusatian Mountains at an elevation of and flows to Česká Lípa-Vlčí Důl, where it merges with the Ploučnice River at an elevation of . It is long, of which is in the Czech Republic. Its drainage basin has an area of . The longest tributaries of the Svitavka are: Course The Svitavka originates in Jonsdorf in Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploučnice
The Ploučnice () is a river in the Czech Republic, a right tributary of the Elbe River. It flows through the Liberec Region, Liberec and Ústí nad Labem Region, Ústí nad Labem regions. It is long, making it the List of rivers of the Czech Republic, 23rd longest river in the Czech Republic. Etymology The name of the river is derived from the Czech word ''plž'' (meaning 'Mollusca, mollusc'). The river was probably originally called ''plžčnice'' (meaning "a stream full of molluscs"). Characteristic The Ploučnice originates in the territory of Osečná in the Ralsko Uplands at an elevation of . The spring area is considered to be one of the most abundant in Central Europe, which is why this spring is the main one. The secondary spring of the Ploučnice is located in the territory of Světlá pod Ještědem, on the slopes of Mt. Ještěd in the Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge at an elevation of . The river flows to Děčín, where it enters the Elbe River at an elevation of . It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
