Stonava
Sign in to saveStonava (, ) is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Stonava
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- Municipality
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- Stonava, radnice (1).JPG
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- Municipal office
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- Stonava vlajka.jpg
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- Stonawa herb.gif
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- Country
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- Region
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- Moravian-Silesian
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- District
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- Karviná
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- Czech Republic
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- 1
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- Location in the Czech Republic
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- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1388
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 13.87
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 259
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Stonava (, ) is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority.
==Etymology== The name is of topographic origin, derived from the older name of the Stonávka River, which itself denoted a murmuring river. As Stonawa it was then mentioned in 1432, a German name Steinau appeared in the 18th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stonava” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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