Měchenice
Sign in to saveMěchenice is a municipality and village in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Měchenice
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- View of Mechenice.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Měchenice from Oleško
- Settlement.image_flag
- Mechenice prapor.gif
- Settlement.image_shield
- Měchenice CoA CZ.png
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central Bohemian
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Prague-West
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- Czech Republic
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
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- Location in the Czech Republic
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 999
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1.33
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 205
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Czech Republic
- Official name
- Měchenice
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Located in
- Prague-West District
- Population
- 873
- Area
- 1.333987
- Elevation
- 205
- Shares border with
- Klínec
- Official website
- www.mechenice.cz
- Image
- Měchenice, ulice.JPG
- Licence plate code
- PZ
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- Commons category
- Měchenice
- historical region
- Bohemia
- postal code
- 252 06
- time of earliest written record
- 1000-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of houses
- 300
- mean age
- 43.8
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- Araújo
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Měchenice is a municipality and village in Prague-West District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
==Etymology== The name was initially written as Měchynice and was derived from the personal name Měchyně. The word mechyně, from which the personal name was derived, denoted 'harlot' in the Middle Ages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Měchenice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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