Petřkovice is a

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and municipal part of the city of

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 ...

in the

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. It is situated in the northern part of the city, above the confluence of the

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and

Ostravice Ostravice (, ) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,600 inhabitants. Geography Ostravice is located about south of Frýdek-Místek and south of Ostrava ...

rivers. Originally a separate municipality, Petřkovice was incorporated into Ostrava in 1971. A

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

museum is situated on the Landek hill in Petřkovice, offering guided tours through a former

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mine at a depth of 1 km (0.621 mi). In the 1950s, the Venus of Petřkovice was found in that area. On 24 November 1990, it became one of the 23 self-governing boroughs of Ostrava.

Etymology

The name is derived from the

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Petr, the

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variant of the name

Peter Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

, who was presumably a

lokator The ''lokator'' (lat. ''locator'': landlord, land allocator, from Latin to allocate, rent, establish, settle or locate; also ''magister incolarum''; in Mecklenburg and Pomerania also or , similar to the ''Reutemeister'' in South Germany) was a ...

. By adding the

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''-ovice'', it became ''Petřkovice,'' meaning ''Petr’s settlement''.

Gallery

File:Ostrava, Landek Park, Landecké náměstí (1).jpg, The mining museum on the Landek hill File:Ostrava, Pod Landekem.jpg, Area under the Landek hill File:Ostrava, Petřkovice, škola na náměstí (1).JPG,

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in Petřkovice File:Ostrava, Petřkovice, kostel.JPG, Chapel in Petřkovice

References

{{reflist Ostrava Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic