Bělský Les is a part of the

Ostrava-Jih Ostrava-Jih is a Statutory city (Czech Republic)#Differences of statutory city, borough and municipal district of the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic, located in the south-central part of the city. It comprises the city parts of Dubina (Ostrava) ...

city

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Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

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. It was named after a

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in that area of the same name. During the 1980s and 1990s, a large of apartment panel buildings were constructed in that area. On 24 November 1990, Výškovice merged with Dubina, Hrabůvka,

Zábřeh Zábřeh (; ) is a town in Šumperk District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Zábřeh consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): ...

and

Výškovice Výškovice is a part of the Ostrava-Jih city borough in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Originally it was an agricultural village. In the 1960s, a development project to build new panel apartment blocks began in that area, and in 1966, Výškovice were ...

to form one of the 23 self-governing boroughs of Ostrava.

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