Petrovice (Bruntál District)
Encyclopedia
Petrovice is a village and municipality in Bruntál District
in the Moravian-Silesian Region
of the Czech Republic
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Bruntál District
Bruntál District is a district within Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Bruntál, but the biggest town is Krnov...
in the Moravian-Silesian Region
Moravian-Silesian Region
Moravian-Silesian Region , or Moravo-Silesian Region, is one of 14 administrative Regions of the Czech Republic, until May 2001 it was formerly called the Ostrava Region . The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the...
of the 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....
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Natives
- Josef PfitznerJosef PfitznerJosef Pfitzner was a politician of Nazi Germany and a writer.- Bio :Josef Pfitzner was born in Petrovice , Austrian Silesia. He was a German historian and politician and was Professor at the German University of Prague. Early on, he was attracted to Nazism and belonged to the branch of Austrian...
- Sudeten GermanSudeten Germans- Importance of Sudeten Germans :Czechoslovakia was inhabited by over 3 million ethnic Germans, comprising about 23 percent of the population of the republic and about 29.5% of Bohemia and Moravia....
historianHistorianA historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, writer and NaziNazi GermanyNazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
politician