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Kopřivnice
Kopřivnice (; ) is a town in Nový Jičín District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 21,000 inhabitants. It is an industrial town, known especially for the vehicle manufacturer Tatra. Administrative division Kopřivnice consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Kopřivnice (17,777) *Lubina (1,850) *Mniší (788) *Vlčovice (604) Etymology Both the Czech and German names of the town are derived from 'nettle' (''kopřiva'' in Czech, ''Nessel'' in German). The name refers to the probable founder of Šostýn Castle (German: ''Schauenstein''), Bishop Bruno von Schauenburg, who had a nettle in his coat of arms. Geography Kopřivnice is located about east of Nový Jičín and south of Ostrava. It lies in the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The highest point is the hill Pískovna at above sea level. The town proper is situated on the Kopřivnička Stream. The stream flows to the Lubina River, which f ...
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Tatra (company)
Tatra is a Czech vehicle manufacturer from Kopřivnice. It is owned by the TATRA TRUCKS a.s. company, and it is the third oldest company in the world producing motor vehicles with an unbroken history. The company was founded in 1850 as ''Ignatz Schustala & Cie''. In 1890 the company became a joint-stock company and was renamed the ''Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft''. In 1897, the ''Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft'' produced the Präsident, which was the first factory-produced automobile with a petrol engine to be made in Central and Eastern Europe. The First Truck was made a year later, in 1898. In 1918, the company was renamed ''Kopřivnická vozovka a.s.'', and in 1919 it changed from the Nesselsdorfer marque to the ''Tatra'' badge, named after the nearby Tatra Mountains on the Czechoslovak- Polish border (now on the Polish- Slovak border). In the interwar period, Tatra came to international prominence with its line of affordable cars based on ba ...
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Nový Jičín District
Nový Jičín District () is a district in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Nový Jičín. Administrative division Nový Jičín District is divided into five administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Nový Jičín, Bílovec, Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Kopřivnice and Odry. List of municipalities Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Albrechtičky - Bartošovice - Bernartice nad Odrou - Bílov - Bílovec - Bítov - Bordovice - Bravantice - Frenštát pod Radhoštěm - Fulnek - Heřmanice u Oder - Heřmánky - Hladké Životice - Hodslavice - Hostašovice - Jakubčovice nad Odrou - Jeseník nad Odrou - Jistebník - Kateřinice - Kopřivnice - Kujavy - Kunín - Libhošť - Lichnov - Luboměř - Mankovice - Mořkov - Mošnov - Nový Jičín - Odry - Petřvald - Příbor - Pustějov - Rybí - Sedlnice - Šenov u Nového Jičína - Skotnice - Slatina - '' Sp ...
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Moravian-Silesian Region
The Moravian-Silesian Region () is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region (). The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech Silesia, Czech part of the historical region of Silesia. The region borders the Olomouc Region to the west and the Zlín Region to the south. It also borders two other countries – Poland (Opole Voivodeship, Opole and Silesian Voivodeships) to the north and Slovakia (Žilina Region) to the east. It is a highly Industrialisation, industrialized region, its capital Ostrava was actually called the "Steel Heart of the Republic". In addition, it has several mountainous areas where the landscape is relatively preserved. Nowadays, the economy of the region benefits from its location in the Czech/Polish/Slovak borderlands. Administrative division Traditionally, the region has been divided into six districts () which still exist a ...
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Lubina (river)
The Lubina is a river in the Czech Republic, a right tributary of the Oder River. It flows through the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is long. Name The name of the river was first documented in the 13th century. The village of Lubina (today part of Kopřivnice) was named after the river. Characteristic The Lubina originates in the territory of Trojanovice in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids range at an elevation of and flows to Jistebník, where it enters the Oder River at an elevation of . It is long. Its drainage basin has an area of . The average discharge at 5.2 river km (before the confluence with the Trnávka) is . The longest tributaries of the Lubina are: Course The river flows through the municipal territories of Trojanovice, Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Tichá, Lichnov, Kopřivnice, Příbor, Skotnice, Mošnov, Petřvald, Stará Ves nad Ondřejnicí and Jistebník. Nature The mouth of the river is located within the Poodří Protected Landscape Area. Amon ...
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Ignaz Schustala
Ignaz Schustala () (7 December 182229 January 1891) was a Czech entrepreneur, and the founder of the ', which later became Tatra. References External links Birth and baptism record {{DEFAULTSORT:Schustala, Ignaz 1822 births 1891 deaths People from Kopřivnice Businesspeople from the Austrian Empire European founders of automobile manufacturers Businesspeople from Austria-Hungary ...
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Moravian-Silesian Foothills
Moravian-Silesian Foothills () are foothills and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. Geomorphology The Moravian-Silesian Foothills is a mesoregion of the Western Beskidian Foothills macroregion within the Outer Western Carpathians subprovince. It is bordered by the Moravian-Silesian Beskids and Hostýn-Vsetín Mountains on the south and by the Moravian Gate on the north. The landscape is characterized by a erosional-denudational relief based on a deeply denuded nappe structure with numerous nappe debris, remnants of leveled surfaces, breakthrough valleys and cryogenic forms resulting from continental glaciation. The foothills are further subdivided into the microregions of Kelč Uplands, Maleník, Příbor Uplands, Štramberk Highlands, Frenštát Furrow, Třinec Furrow, and Těšín Uplands. There are a lot of low mountains or high hills. The highest peaks of the Moravian-Silesian Foothills are: *Skalka, *Stanovec, *Ondřejník, *Suché úbočí, *Červ ...
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List Of Roman Catholic Bishops And Archbishops Of Olomouc
The following is a list of diocesan bishops and archbishops of Olomouc. Not much is known about the beginnings of the Diocese of Olomouc. It was reestablished in 1063 and in 1777 it was elevated to an archdiocese. Bishops of Olomouc *''898/900–? Bishop from Rome'' *914–932 Jan (?)' *''Vacant (?)'' *942–947 Silvestr (?), † 961 *''947–976 united with the Bishopric of Regensburg (?)'' *976–981 Vratislav (?) *''981–991 united with the Bishopric of Regensburg (?)'' *''991–1063 united with the Bishopric of Prague (?)'' * 1063–1086 Jan I (Johann I von Brenau) *''1086–1088 united with the Bishopric of Prague (?)'' * 1088–1091 Vezel * 1091–1096 Ondřej *1096–1099 Jindřich (?) * 1097/1099–1104 Petr I * 1104–1126 Jan II * 1126–1150 Jindřich Zdík * 1151–1157 Jan III of Litomyšl * 1157–1172 Jan IV * 1172–1182 Dětleb * 1182–1184 Pelhřim * 1184–1194 Kaim ( Chaim von Böhmen) * 1194–1199 Engelbert von Brabant * 1199–1201 Ja ...
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Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch-Portuguese War, and the Portuguese Restoration War. The war had its origins in the 16th-century Reformation, which led to religious conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1555 Peace of Augsburg attempted to resolve this by dividing the Empire into Catholic and Lutheran states, but the settlement was destabilised by the subsequent expansion of Protestantism beyond these boundaries. Combined with differences over the limits of imperial authority, religion was thus an important factor in star ...
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consisted of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both the Emperor of Austria and the King of Hungary. Austria-Hungary constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy: it was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War, following wars of independence by Hungary in opposition to Habsburg rule. It was dissolved shortly after Dissolution of Austria-Hungary#Dissolution, Hungary terminated the union with Austria in 1918 at the end of World War 1. One of Europe's major powers, Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe (after Russian Empire, Russia) and the third-most populous (afte ...
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ...
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Městys
Městys (or, unofficially or obsolete, městečko iterally "small town", translated as " market town", is a status conferred on certain municipalities in the Czech Republic, lying in terms of size and importance higher than that of simple ''obec'' (municipality) but lower than that of ''město'' (city, town). Historically, a ''městys'' was a locality that had the right to stage livestock markets (and some other "extraordinary" and annual markets), and it is therefore translated as "market town". The term went out of official use in Czechoslovakia in 1954 but was reintroduced in the Czech Republic in 2006. As of September 2020, there are 228 municipalities on which the status of ''městys'' has been re-admitted. In all cases, these are municipalities that have requested the return of their former title. This title has not been newly awarded to any municipality that would not have it in the past—the law does not even set any specific criteria for it, only procedural competenc ...
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Hukvaldy
Hukvaldy () is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. The municipality is known for the ruins of the third-largest castle in the Czech Republic, Hukvaldy Castle, and is the birthplace of the composer Leoš Janáček. Administrative division Hukvaldy consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Hukvaldy (542) *Dolní Sklenov (586) *Horní Sklenov (205) *Krnalovice (89) *Rychaltice (683) Etymology The name is derived from the Hückeswagen family, who were the first owners of Hukvaldy. Geography Hukvaldy is located about southwest of Frýdek-Místek and south of Ostrava. It lies in the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The highest point is the hill Babí hora at above sea level. The Ondřejnice River flows through the municipality. History The Hukvaldy Castle was founded in the 1270s or 1280s by the Hückeswagen family and was first men ...
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