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This is a list of municipalities of the Czech Republic which have status of a city, town or market town granted by law. As of 2024, there are 27 cities, 583 towns and 232 market towns in the Czech Republic.
The atlas is used in the study of the evolution of the process of urbanization in the Czech lands and the history of towns, in heritage preservation, in the active preservation, recultivation, and formation of the landscape, in educational and popularization activities, etc.
The aim of the Historic Towns Atlas project has been, since 1994, to describe the development of cities and towns in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia for use by both professionals and the public. It consists of old maps, town views, old photographs, aerial photographs, and thematic (reconstruction) maps and 3D models.
The history of the Czech lands – an area roughly corresponding to the present-day Czech Republic – starts approximately 800 years BCE. A simple chopper from that age was discovered at the Red Hill (Czech: Červený kopec) archeological site in Brno. [ 1 ]
5 paź 2023 · These towns, often strategically located along trade routes or near natural resources, quickly became hubs of activity and centers of power. Alongside the towns, castles were constructed atop hills and mountains, serving as both defensive fortifications and symbols of feudal authority.
1 kwi 2015 · German and Czech names of places, towns and villages (updated) There is plenty of villages in the area of what is today called Czech Republic which were known under two different names in the past, one Czech and one German.
17 cze 2024 · This gazetteer gives information on all town and villages in Slovakia as it existed as part of Czechoslovakia after 1918. In addition, it includes places in Sub-Carpathian Russia (Podkarpatská Rus), now a part of the Ukraine, which belonged to Czechoslovakia between the first and second world wars.
