Miskovice is a village in Kutná Hora District

Kutná Hora District

Kutná Hora District is a district within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic...

, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, located 4.5 km west of Kutná Hora

Kutná Hora

Kutná Hora is a city in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic in the Central Bohemian Region.-History:The town began in 1142 with the settlement of the first Cistercian Monastery in Bohemia, Kloster Sedlitz, brought from the Imperial immediate Cistercian Waldsassen Abbey...

. On the date August 8, 2006 it has 873 inhabitants. First written notice about village is from year 1131.

In 2003 the first czech fossil bones of a non-avian dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

 were found in an abandoned quarry near this village. These belong to a small ornithopod

Ornithopod

Ornithopods or members of the clade Ornithopoda are a group of ornithischian dinosaurs that started out as small, bipedal running grazers, and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world, and dominated the North American...

 related to the popular genus Iguanodon

Iguanodon

Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...

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Parts of village

• Miskovice
• Bylany
• Hořany
• Mezholezy
• Přítoky

External links

Official website