Poříčany
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Poříčany is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,600 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Poříčany
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Poříčany - pomník padlým u sokolovny (podzim 2018) (1).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Park in the centre of Poříčany
- Settlement.image_flag
- Poříčany flag.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Poříčany CoA.jpg
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central Bohemian
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kolín
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Czech Republic
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Czech Republic
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1295
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 5.76
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 203
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Czech Republic
- Official name
- Poříčany
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Population
- 1461
- Area
- 5.7613
- Elevation
- 203
- Shares border with
- Chrást
- Official website
- www.obec-poricany.cz
- Image
- Kostel v Poricanech.jpg
- Licence plate code
- S
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- historical region
- Bohemia
- Commons category
- Poříčany
- postal code
- 289 14
- time of earliest written record
- 1295-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of houses
- 458
- mean age
- 41.6
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Encyclopedic overview
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Poříčany is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,600 inhabitants.
==Etymology== The name is derived from the word poříčané (from poříčí, i.e. "area around a river"), which denoted people who lived near some river.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poříčany” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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