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| | Ostrava |
 | | The Landek Hill was settled by mammoth hunters, who were the first people in the world to use coal from local, to the present day exposed coal seams, to maintain their fireplaces 30 thousand years ago. |
 | | Today's Slezská Ostrava (Silesian Ostrava) was mentioned for the first time in 1229 and City of Moravská Ostrava (Moravian Ostrava) in 1267. |
 | | Today's Ostrava, with its 329,000 inhabitants, continuously strengthens its metropolitan reputation as administrative, business, industrial and social centre of the region, residence of Roman catholic Bishops. |
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