Kyjov

Kyjov
Kyjov
	Town
	Town hall
	Flag Coat of arms
	Kyjov Location in the Czech Republic
	Coordinates: 49°0′36″N 17°07′23″E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	South Moravian
District	Hodonín
First mentioned	1126
Government
• Mayor	František Lukl
Area
• Total	29.88 km2 (11.54 sq mi)
Elevation	192 m (630 ft)
Population (2019-01-01[1])
• Total	11,218
• Density	380/km2 (970/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	697 01
Website	www.mestokyjov.cz

Kyjov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkɪjof]; Latin: Gaya, German: Gaya or Geyen) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 11,000 inhabitants. Kyjov is famous for its folk festival which takes place every four years. Kyjov participated and won silver in the 2008 Entente Florale.[2][3]

Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary

Administrative parts

The villages Bohuslavice, Boršov and Nětčice are administrative parts of Kyjov.

History

Kyjov 1727

The first mention of the village is from 1126 as a local trading centre. The town endured fires, plagues and sieges from the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages. During the Hussite wars the town leaned to Utraquism. It was under the rule of the Olomouc monastery until 1548, when the town achieved recognition as a King's town.

Austrian KK stamp, cancelled Gaia in Mähren in 1879

Until 1918, Gaya in Mähren - Kyjov (previously Gaya or Gaia) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 34 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Moravia.[4]

Kyjov is a centre of regional folklore. Slovácký Rok (Moravian Slovakian Year Festival) – the oldest Moravian folklore festival, has taken place there since 1921.

Notable people

Radola Gajda (1892–1948), military commander and politician
Bohumil Sekla (1901–1987), biologist, professor at Charles University
Vladimír Vašíček (1919–2003), painter
Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011), painter, photographer
Josef Fronek (born 1936), lexicographist, graduate of Kyjov Grammar school, composer of the most comprehensive English/Czech/Slovak dictionary works of the post-totalitarian age
Silvia Saint (born 1976), porn actress
Jan Bárta (born 1984), road cyclist

Twin towns – sister cities

Kyjov is twinned with:[5]

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gollark: Java basically enforces it?

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gollark: I've seen a bunch of non-object-oriented projects.

References

"Population of municipalities of the Czech republic". Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
"Download CZ-Kyjov-Web.pdf Free download from www.entente-florae.eu". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
"Kyjov: Entente florale se dostává do povědomí veřejnosti". Retrieved 25 May 2012.
Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm Klein, 1967
"Partnerská města Kyjova" (in Czech). =Město Kyjov. Retrieved 25 August 2019.

External links

Official website (in Czech)

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[1] "Population of municipalities of the Czech republic". Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 30 April 2019.

[kyjov-2] "Download CZ-Kyjov-Web.pdf Free download from www.entente-florae.eu". Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

[3] "Kyjov: Entente florale se dostává do povědomí veřejnosti". Retrieved 25 May 2012.

[4] Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm Klein, 1967

[5] "Partnerská města Kyjova" (in Czech). =Město Kyjov. Retrieved 25 August 2019.