Ostrava (cze)

Ostrava

Ostrava ranks 597th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Rostock, Cannes, and Inglewood, California. Memorable people born in Ostrava include Ivan Lendl, Věra Chytilová, and Karel Reisz. Memorable people who died in Ostrava include Leoš Janáček, and Patricia Janečková. Ostrava has been the birth place of many soccer players, and hockey players and the death place of many composers, and singers. Ostrava is located in Czechia.

Ostrava 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. Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic in terms of both population and area, the second largest city in the region of Moravia, and the largest city in the historical land of Czech Silesia. It straddles the border of the two historic provinces of Moravia and Silesia. The wider conurbation – which also includes the towns of Bohumín, Havířov, Karviná, Orlová, Petřvald and Rychvald – is home to about 500,000 people, making it the largest urban area in the Czech Republic apart from the capital Prague. Read more on Wikipedia