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Ostrava is located about 270 kilometres (170 mi) east of Prague. It lies mostly in the Ostrava Basin lowland, only the southwestern part of the municipal territory extends into the Moravian Gate. Ostrava is mostly low-lying, with a highest point of 280 m (920 ft) above sea level.
While the forms are generally viewed as regional variants of Czech, some Moravians (108,469 in the 2011 census) claim them to be one separate Moravian language. [ 1 ] Moravian dialects are considerably more varied than the dialects of Bohemia, [ 3 ] and span a dialect continuum linking Bohemian and West Slovak dialects. [ 4 ]
Some place names were merely Germanized versions of the original Czech names, as seen e.g. from their etymology. The compromise of 1867 marked a recognition of the need for bilingualism in areas where an important portion of the population used another language; the procedure was imposed by official instructions in 1871. [1]
Ostrava (285,000; central part, Moravská Ostrava, lies historically in Moravia, most of the outskirts are in Czech Silesia), capital of Moravian-Silesian Region, centre of heavy industry; Olomouc (102,000), capital of Olomouc Region, medieval land capital, seat of Roman Catholic archbishop, cultural centre of Hanakia and Central Moravia
Census asked people for their native language, 1,296 (5.7%) were German-speaking, 16,927 (74.6%) were Czech-speaking and 4,467 (19.7%) were Polish-speaking. Jews were not allowed to declare Yiddish, most of them thus declared the German language as their native.
Moravia within the European Union. Moravians (Czech: Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a West Slavic ethnic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both.
Ostrava is the economic centre of the entire Moravian-Silesian Region. With only one exception, all the largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava-City District and at least 1,000 employees have their seat in Ostrava. The largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava and at least 1,500 employees are: [6]
Six of its districts, Bruntál, Frýdek-Místek, Karviná, Nový Jičín, Opava, and Ostrava, were in 2000 put into the newly established Moravian-Silesian Region. The old North Moravian Region still exists and jurisdiction of some administrative bodies is defined by its borders.