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Mokrá-Horákov
Mokrá-Horákov is a municipality in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants. Administrative division Mokrá-Horákov consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Mokrá (1,794) *Horákov (910) Geography Mokrá-Horákov is located about east of Brno. The villages of Mokrá and Horákov are urbanistically fused. The municipality lies in the Drahany Highlands. The highest point is at above sea level. The Říčka Stream flows along the western municipal border. The northern part of the municipality extends into the Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area. The area along the Říčka Stream within the Moravian Karst is rich in cave systems and is protected as Údolí Říčky Nature Reserve. History The first written mention of Mokrá is from 1350. From the end of the 14th century until the establishment of a sovereign municipality in 1848, Mokrá was owned by the Royal Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miloslava Misáková
Miloslava Misáková (25 February 1922 – 1 July 2015) was a Czech gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ..., winning gold. She was born in Horákov. References 1922 births 2015 deaths People from Brno-Country District Czech female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from the South Moravian Region {{Czechoslovakia-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brno-Country District
Brno-Country District () is a Okres, district in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Brno. The most populated town of the district is Kuřim. The district is made up of 187 municipalities, which is the highest number within all districts of the Czech Republic. Administrative division Brno-Country District is divided into seven Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities with extended competence, administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Ivančice (administrative district), Ivančice, Kuřim (administrative district), Kuřim, Pohořelice (administrative district), Pohořelice, Rosice (administrative district), Rosice, Šlapanice (administrative district), Šlapanice, Tišnov (administrative district), Tišnov, and Židlochovice (administrative district), Židlochovice. List of municipalities Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Babice nad Svitavou - Babice u Rosic - Běleč (Brno-Country Dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moravian Karst
The Moravian Karst () is a karst landscape and protected landscape area to the north of Brno in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It encompasses a number of notable geological features, including roughly 1100 caverns and gorges and covers an area of roughly 92 km2. Accessed 9-4-2008. Currently, five of the cave systems ( Punkva Caves (discovered by Karel Absolon), Balcarka Cave, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidelberg Materials
Heidelberg Materials is a German multinational building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Formerly known as HeidelbergCement AG, the company has rebranded as Heidelberg Materials in September 2022. It is a DAX corporation and stands as one of the world's largest building materials companies. On 1 July 2016, HeidelbergCement AG completed the acquisition of a 45% shareholding in Italcementi. This acquisition made HeidelbergCement the number one producer of construction aggregates, the second-largest in cement and the third-largest in ready-mixed concrete worldwide. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, HeidelbergCement was ranked as the 678th -largest public company in the world. The enlarged group has activities in over 50 countries with 51,000 employees working at almost 3,000 production sites. Heidelberg Materials operates around 130 cement plants with an annual cement capacity of around 170 million tonnes, around 1,300 ready-mixed concrete production sites, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cement
A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel ( aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete. Concrete is the most widely used material in existence and is behind only water as the planet's most-consumed resource. Cements used in construction are usually inorganic, often lime- or calcium silicate-based, and are either hydraulic or less commonly non-hydraulic, depending on the ability of the cement to set in the presence of water (see hydraulic and non-hydraulic lime plaster). Hydraulic cements (e.g., Portland cement) set and become adhesive through a chemical reaction between the dry ingredients and water. The chemical reaction results in mineral hydrates that are not very water-soluble. This allows setting in wet conditions or u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sokolnice
Sokolnice () is a municipality and village in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,500 inhabitants. Geography Sokolnice is located about southeast of Brno. It lies in the Dyje–Svratka Valley. The highest point is at above sea level. The Říčka River flows through the village. The Dunávka Stream flows through the western part of the municipality and supplies Balaton Pond. History The first written mention of Sokolnice is from 1408. Until the end of the 15th century, the village was owned by the monastery in Třebíč and passed on to various lesser nobles. Even in the following centuries, Sokolnice often changed owners. The village was badly damaged during the Thirty Years' War. From 1705 to 1875, Sokolnice was a property of the Dietrichstein family. Demographics Transport The municipality is served by the ''Sokolnice-Telnice'' train station, located on the railway line heading from Křenovice to Skalice nad Svitavou via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobylnice (Brno-Country District)
Kobylnice is a municipality and village in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. Kobylnice lies approximately south-east of Brno and south-east of Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P .... Demographics References External links * Villages in Brno-Country District {{SouthMoravia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Of St
A cathedral is a church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches.''New Standard Encyclopedia'', 1998 by Standard Educational Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; page B-262c. Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appeared in Italy, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures, and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastic churches, and episcopal residences. The cathedral is more important in the hierarchy than the church because it is from the cathedral that the bishop governs the area under his or ... [...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] |
Drahany Highlands
Drahany is a market town in Prostějov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. Etymology According to one theory, the name is derived from the personal name Drahan. According to other theory, it is derived from the old Czech word ''draha'' (i.e. 'way', 'road') and referred to a road from Brno to Prostějov that led this way. Geography Drahany is located about west of Prostějov and southwest of Olomouc. It lies in the Drahany Highlands. The highest point is the hill Horka at above sea level. The Velká Haná Stream, which is the main source of the Haná River, originates here and flows to the south. In the western part of the municipal territory is the fishpond Nebeský rybník. Together with its surroundings, it is protected as a nature monument with an area of . History The first written mention of Drahany is from 1310, when the local castle, occupied by marauding knights, was conquered by King John of Bohemia. In 1322, King John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of The Czech Republic
Regions of the Czech Republic ( ; singular ) are higher-level territorial self-governing units of the Czech Republic. History The first regions (''kraje'') were created in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the 14th century. At the beginning of the 15th century, Bohemia was already divided into 12 regions, but their borders were not fixed due to the frequent changes in the borders of the estates. During the reign of George of Poděbrady (1458–1471), Bohemia was divided into 14 regions, which remained so until 1714, when their number was reduced to 12 again. From 1751 to 1850, after the four largest regions were divided, the kingdom consisted of 16 regions. Between 1850 and 1862, there were several reforms and the number of regions fluctuated between 7 and 13. Due to the parallel establishment of political districts in 1848, however, their importance declined. In 1862, the regions were abolished, although the regional authorities had some powers until 1868. Moravia was divided into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
