Nechanitz is an

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in north central Fayette County,

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, United States. Nechanitz is at the junction of Farm to Market roads 3011 and 2145, eleven miles north of La Grange in north central Fayette County. The area was settled in 1853 by Wenzel Matejowsky, the first settler from

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to enter Fayette County, and was named after his native town of

Nechanice Nechanice (; ) is a town in Hradec Králové District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,500 inhabitants. Administrative division Nechanice consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to th ...

in Bohemia.

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