Bocanovice
Sign in to saveBocanovice () is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority.
Key facts
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- Bocanovice
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- Municipality
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- Boconowice 1249.jpg
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- Railway station
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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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- Frýdek-Místek
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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
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- 1597
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 3.77
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 418
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Bocanovice () is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority.
==Etymology== The name is derived from Polish word bocian (meaning 'stork'). The storks hunted frogs that lived abundantly in the wetlands that used to be here.
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