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  Other Czech Cities : Prague Holiday
Litomerice is a town at the junction of rivers Labe and Ohre in the north part of Czech Republic approximately 72 km northwest of Prague.
The city of Plzen (Plzen) is situated in the Plzen basin on the confluence of four rivers - Mze, Radbuza, Uhlava and Uslava.
The picturesque town of Vimperk, often nicknamed the gateway to the Sumava or the town below Boubin Mountain, is nestled in the Volynka River valley, on the edge of the Boubin primeval forest, at an altitude of 700 metres.
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  Travel guide - Opava. E-travel.cz - accommodation in hotels and apartments in Prague and the Czech Republic.
The district town of Opava (with a population of 64,000) is situated on the River Opava, c.
Opava was the seat of the provincial offices until the formation of the province of Moravia-Silesia in 1928.
During the Nazi occupation of 1938 - 1945 Opava was the centre of one of the Sudeten districts.
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The city is divided by the Opava River which rises in Hrubý Jeseník and flows to the Odra River.Opava is a district capital (district capital) in the Moravian-Silesian County.
Opava with its 65,000 inhabitants is the fifth largest city in the Moravian-Silesian County and the seventeenth largest city of the Czech Republic.
Opava is the district railway intersection connecting 5 of 7 railways of the Opava District.
www.mobilityforall.cz /eng/opava_frame.htm   (718 words)

  
 Statutární město Opava: History of Opava
OPAVA (population of 64,000) is the regional town and lies on the river of the same name at around 260 m above sea level.
Opava remained the seat of the Municipal Authority Offices until the formation of the Moravia-Silesian country in 1928.
Opava was the centre of one of the Sudeten factions during the Nazi occupation from 1938 till 1945.
www.opava-city.cz /scripts/detail.php?id=701   (580 words)

  
 Opava
Opava was established in the l2th century as a merchant's settlement at a ford across the Opavice River.
Opava gained the freedoms of a city around 1215 and they were further strengthened by the privilege of the Czech King Přemysl Otakar I in 1224.
Opava gained recognition as the capital of Czech Silesia and became the seat of the country's authorities and established autonomous authorities.
www.bohemianet.com /ostrarvsky_kraj/opava/opava_en.htm   (866 words)

  
 North Moravia
The town of Olomouc lies on the confluence of the River Bystřice and Morava, in the centre of the agricultural region Haná in central Moravia.
The district town of Opava is situated on the River Opava, 260 m above sea level.
The principality of Opava was founded at the beginning of the 14th century and the town became its administrative centre.
www.worldtravel.cz /incoming/htm_inc/discover/northmor.htm   (697 words)

  
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Opava behove area boundary, that are very rife with artistic and historical sights.
Opava with dissociation whereupon confluence river Opava and Moravice, have about 65 000 citizen, be situated in 257 metres above sea level.
Penzion A club lies on Pekařská street, about fifty meters from river Opava, direction to downtown, which is five minutes by walk.
www.sweb.cz /penzion.a.club/home.htm   (143 words)

  
 Odra Catchment
In the longitudinal profile of the river two significant parts can be distinguished: the mountain part of the first 50 km of the river, with the slope exceeding 0.7% and the lowland part in the remaining part with the slope 0.30-0.45%.
One of the largest river systems of the left side catchment of the Odra river, which influence on the flow of the Odra river, is the Kaczawa catchment.
The Opava river makes a smaller contribution to the build-up of the rising limb, however it plays its role in the behaviour of the falling limb.
projects.dhi.dk /floodrelief/odracatchment.htm   (864 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Opava   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Moravian-Silesian Region (in Czech Moravskoslezský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located it the north-eastern part of its hitorical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the historical region of Silesia.
Opava (Polish: Opawa, German: Oppa) is a river in the north-eastern Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Oder river.
Martin of Opava, also known as Martin of Poland, was an important Dominican chronicler of the 13th century.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Opava   (372 words)

  
 The official website of Racibórz Municipality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Opava is situated in the north-eastern part of the Czech Republic, on the Opava River, approximately 30 kilometres from Raciborz (border crossing point: Pietraszyn – Sudice).
Opava with its rich historical heritage and traditions is an attractive place for the tourists.
Opava has a great deal to offer to visitors in the way of culture (The Silesian Theatre, The Puppet Theatre, The Art House, and many private galleries) and recreation (stadiums and numerous swimming pools).
www.raciborz.pl /a_opava.php   (160 words)

  
 Water Management in the Czech Part of the Odra River Basin
The Odra River, flowing to the Baltic Sea, is an international watercourse and its drainage basin spreads on the territory of three countries -- the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany (annex no. 1).
The river basin is densely inhabited, approximately 1.3 mill.
In the western part of the river basin the minimum flow rates in the Moravice River, Opava River, and Odra River are ensured by the Kružberk reservoir and by the Slezská Harta reservoir.
www.riob.org /ag2000/vhs_ang.htm   (1378 words)

  
 Paddling guide rivers.raft.cz - River Opava, country ČR - Morava
Paddling guide rivers.raft.cz - River Opava, country ČR - Morava
Conditions: upper part has good drop with many small new navigable steps - danger by HW.
A prohibition is needed for ship from Krnov to Karlovce, because the river traverses in a border part.
rivers.raft.cz /morava/opava.aspx   (80 words)

  
 STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF THE MORAVSKOSLEZSKÝ REGION 2004
Central part of the Region is characteristic by densely populated lowland territory of the Opava lowlands (Opavská nížina), the Ostrava basin (Ostravská pánev) and the Moravian gateway (Moravská brána).
On the territory of the town of Ostrava the Odra River receives its biggest supplies - the Opava River that drains water from the Jeseníky Mountains and the area of the town of Opava and the Ostravice River that drains water from the Moravskoslezské Beskydy.
The best situation, relatively, is in the Opava and Nový Jičín Districts, while on the opposite side of the scale (in comparison both within the Region and the entire Czech Republic) are the Bruntál, Ostrava and Karviná Districts, which take one of the latest places among all the districts of the CR.
www.czso.cz /kraje/roc/data2004/13810104/data/eng/data/html/character.htm   (2112 words)

  
 Opava --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It lies along the Opava River near the Polish border and is northwest of Ostrava, from which it is separated by part of the wooded Oder Hills.
First recorded as Oppavia in 1195, it was a principate and fief of the Bohemian crown in the early 14th century and later became the capital of Austrian Silesia.
It is one of the most significant rivers in the catchment basin of the Baltic Sea, second only to the Vistula in discharge and length.
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 MSN Encarta - Czech Republic
The central part of the Czech Republic is dominated by the elevated plateaus of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and the low plains and rolling hills of the Bohemian Basin.
A number of rivers drain these areas, and much of the country’s farmland is located there.
The main rivers of the Czech Republic are the Elbe (known locally as the Labe), the Vltava, the Ohře, the Morava, the Lužnice, the Jihlava, and the Svratka.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761556878   (673 words)

  
 Manitoba Conservation
River heights on the main stem of the Morava River rose between 2 - 6 m while many of its tributaries rose 1 - 4 m over very short time periods.
Because river floods most often contain high concentrations of turbidity, mapping flooded areas with conventional fl and white aerial photography can be quite difficult due to the flat, gray tones rendered by the water bodies which make the differentiation between land and water difficult.
Vector overlays of the rivers and lakes were superimposed and printed on top of the classification results to highlight the degree of river flooding and ponding of water.
www.gov.mb.ca /conservation/geomatics/remote_sensing/czechreport.html   (5221 words)

  
 Oder River --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
The Oder is connected with the Vistula, Poland's largest river, by means of a water route utilizing the Warta and Notec rivers, together with the Bydgoszcz Canal, and is tied in with the waterway system of western Europe by way of the Oder–Spree and Oder–Havel canals in eastern Germany.
From the river's source and over the greater part of its course, the Oder flows in a generally southeast–northwest direction; only from the junction with the Neisse (Polish: Nysa Luzycka) River does the northward trend toward the Baltic commence.
The principal left-bank tributaries are the Opava of the Czech Republic and the Osobloga, Nysa Klodzka, Olawa, Sleza, Bystrzyca, Kaczawa, Bóbr, and Neisse of Poland; from the east the main tributaries are the Olše of the Czech Republic and the Klodnica, Mala Panew, Strobrawa, Widawa, Barycz, Obrzyca, Warta, Mysla, and Ina of Poland.
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 AllRefer.com - Opava, Czech Republic & Slovakia (Czech And Slovak Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Opava, Czech Republic & Slovakia (Czech And Slovak Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
62,815), NE Czech Republic, in Moravia, on the Opava River and near the Polish border.
A prosperous market center in a fertile agricultural region, it has food-processing plants and industries producing clothing, machinery, and railroad cars.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Opava.html   (211 words)

  
 Jeseníky, Rychleby, Kralický Sněžník - Nature trail - Bílá Opava
Nature trail Bílá Opava is beautiful and touristic interesting way around the waterfalls of river Bílá Opava.
The river Bílá Opava springs in saddle between rocks Petrovy kameny and mountain Praděd in 1280 m.
The natere preserve Bílá Opava was established in the year 1963 and its area is about 280ha.
www.ceskehory.cz /Jeseniky/mesta_gb.asp?id=202   (308 words)

  
 SUBFOSSIL BRAIDED RIVER PATTERN AS AN INDICATOR OF EXTREME SHORT TERM EVENTS, SUDETES MOUNTAINS, CENTRAL EUROPE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Big boulders deposited here form a typical braided pattern overgrown with old spruce forest; the braided river pattern consist of a group of boulder palaeo-bars, te majority of which formed as longitudinal central bars with lee slopes running diagonally to the valley axis.
Tree-ring increment analysis indicates that the oldest spruces growing on this braided river pattern may be more than 75 years old so that, allowing for the time required for the formation of the initial soil and the succession of pioneer vegetation, the spruces succeeded here around the turn of the 20th century.
The periglacial regolith covering the steep, deforested slopes of the valley were the source of the coarse-grained clastic material supplied to the Bila Opava river bed.
gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54347.htm   (425 words)

  
 Opava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opava was founded in the 12th century and the Congress of Troppau took place here in 1820.
See also the historian Martin of Opava - one of the town's most famous sons.
Also Joy Adamson, a naturalist, was born here.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opava   (114 words)

  
 Krnov-history of the town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The city of Krnov lies at the confluence of the rivers Opava and Opavice, in the area at the foot of the Nízký Jeseník mountain range, close to the Czech-Polish border.
The Krnov castle of Cvilín, which was built of stone blocks in the 13th century, became the princely residence to Nicholas the Prince of Opava coming from the side of Přemysls' family branch.
The peace made in Breslau in 1742 brought to the region of Krnov the loss of the large territories on the left bank of the river Opava and Opavice and separation of the whole region of Hlubčice.
www.krnov.cz /language/en/historie_en/index.shtml   (891 words)

  
 FishNET SERVICE - Northern Moravia and Silesia
Most of the ponds in district Opava covers the fishery at Dolni Benesov, owner of it is Mr.
Vojkovsky is situated cca 8 km southerly Bruntal by the Moravice river.
To this farm situated in picturesque valley of Cerna Opava river iseparable belongs the seasonal inn (May - September) and angling in small pond.
old.fishnet.cz /fns-comer/sevmor_an.htm   (327 words)

  
 Ostrava   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A city of over 60,000 people on the Polish border, Opava is the cultural, economic and administrative center of Czech Silesia.
The city has its roots in a village founded on the left bank of the Opava River on the Amber Road, the trade route running from the Adriatic in the south to the Baltic Sea in the north.
It was moved across the river in the 12th century, and the first written reference to it, as Opavia, occurs in the year 1195 in the documents of Prince Vladimir of Olomouc.
archiv.radio.cz /doma/ostrava.html   (301 words)

  
 Opava   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The dominant architectural style (and building material) is a Gothic red-brick style from northern Germany, the finest example being the Church of the Assumptionof the Virgin Mary, reconstructed in the 14th century on the ruins of a Romanesque basilica.
Other notable historical landmarks in Opava include the early Baroque Church of St. Adalbert and the Gothic Church of the Holy Spirit, built in the 13th century with a crypt containing the remains of the Premyslid princes of Opava.
More secular monuments in Opava can be found in the Old Town, such as the Renaissance city tower (known as the Hlaska) built in 1618, the Baroque palaces of the Sobek and Blucher families, and the 17th century Old Provincial House.
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 HEŘMANOVICE - GEOGRAPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Heřmanovice is located in a cold area with a relatively cold and humid summer (growing season of 135 days) and a long winter (average number of days with snowing is 54, snow cover stays during 102 days per year in average).
Heřmanovice is located in the sea drainage area of the Baltic Sea - all the water is taken away by the river Opava which is an influent of the river Odra.
The stream Černá Opava (the watercourse length in the cadastre is 17,9 km, the drainage basin area is 58,7 sq km, longterm outflow measured in the village Mnichov is 0, 76 m3s-1) rises on the western slope of Orlík, 1400 m above sea level.
mujweb.cz /instituce/hermanovice/geografieen.htm   (870 words)

  
 OUR REPUBLIC, OUR TOWN
The district of Opava is situated on the Opava River, near to Ostrava and to the Polish border.
In Opava studied Johan Gregor Mendel, and it is birthplace of Czech poet Petr Bezruč.
With his name is linked the name of one Opava´s building: Bezruč Culture House with Opava´s Library of Petr Bezruč.
www.vysokeskoly.cz /maturitniotazky/otazky/anglictina/OurRepublicOurTown.htm   (634 words)

  
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First one is represented by the Rhine River which originates in the ”Rheingletscher region” with well expressed sediments of four Alpine glaciations and flows due N into the realm of the Scandinavian ice sheets.
The second region occupies Northern Moravia with the Odra River basin and the Moravian Gate where the glacial sediments are in direct contact with the fluvial terraces of both the Odra River and due south, beyond the main European water divide, the left Danube tributaries.
Macoun J., Sibrava V.(1961): Terraces of the Opava River in relation to the sediments of the continental glaciation (in Czech).-Anthropozoikum IX/1959, 115-128.
www.gli.cas.cz /igcp/CZ_IGCP1_files\red_11.htm   (3793 words)

  
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Plunging down through deeply carved canyons, we can find waterfalls on the Bílá Opava River, the source of which is located on the southern slope of Praděd Mt. at an elevation of 1260m.
The falls are located in a protected area which preserves the virgin forest comprised of mountain ash and spruce trees, and various flora.
In summer there is a small fee for the maintenance of these ladders, which are often damaged during the spring thaw.
www.heritage-trails.cz /index.php/public/show.php?id=121   (94 words)

  
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This area offers opportunities such as visiting an original hand paper mill that was established in the 16th century (the only one in Europe that produces paper in the truly traditional way) or a trip to the Losiny renaissance chateau.
There are marked trails along the Bila Opava river which help to provide the perfect day trip to the mountains.
There are hundreds of hectares of forest in this region that are flooded annually by the Morava River and in the spring there is a luxurious, white carpet of small white and purple flowers.
www.heritage-trails.cz /r-bosbessenpaadjes/list.nl.html   (548 words)

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