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Ostrava (Czech pronunciation: ⓘ; Polish: Ostrawa; German: Ostrau) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies 15 km (9 mi) from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina.
Town hall of Slezská Ostrava. Slezská Ostrava (Polish: Śląska Ostrawa, lit. Silesian Ostrava), till 1919 Polnisch Ostrau (Czech: Polská Ostrava, Polish: Polska Ostrawa, lit. Polish Ostrava), is a district of the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.
The Ostrava Basin (Czech: Ostravská pánev, Polish: Kotlina Ostrawska, German: Ostrauer Becken) is a lowland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic and Poland. It is located in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland.
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the biggest city of the largest urban area in the Upper Silesian metropolitan area.. The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area [3] [4] (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area or Upper Silesian urban-industrial agglomeration [5]) is a polycentric metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities ...
Even today, ethnographers find that about 25,000 people in Ostrava (about 8% of the population) have Polish surnames. [24] The Czech population (living mainly in the northern part of the area: Bohumín , Orlová , etc.) declined numerically at the end of the 19th century, [ 5 ] assimilating with the prevalent Polish population.
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]
Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava and the German city of Görlitz are within Silesia's borders. Silesia's borders and national affiliation have changed over time, both when it was a hereditary possession of noble houses and after the rise of modern nation-states, resulting in an abundance of castles, especially in the Jelenia Góra valley.
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.