Uherský Brod
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Key facts
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Region
- Zlín
- District
- Uherské Hradiště
- Mayor
- Miroslava Poláková
- Total
- 52.06 km (20.10 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 251 m (823 ft)
- Density
- 312.7/km (809.9/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal codes
- 687 34, 688 01
- Website
- www .ub .cz
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Uherský Brod ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈuɦɛrskiː ˈbrot]; German: Ungarisch Brod) is a town in Uherské Hradiště District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Vizovice Highlands on the Olšava River.
The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. The main landmarks of the town centre are the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Uherský Brod is known as the place where the philosopher and pedagogue John Amos Comenius lived, and the town museum and secondary school bear his name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uherský Brod” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.