Lanškroun

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Area:	20.6 km²
Population:	9,911 (2006)
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Lanškroun (IPA: [ˈlanʃkroʊ̯n]) is a town and municipality in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. On the border between the former provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, it had a population of 9,911 (2006).

In historical documents, the town has been called also Landskron (its German name), Lanskron, Landeskrone, and Kronland.

The town was founded in the thirteenth century as the center of the estate of Lanškroun and Lanšperk. Until 1918, Landskron was part of Bohemia as part of Austria-Hungary, then it became part of the Czechoslovakia and in 1938 it was occupied by German troops according to Munich Agreement. On May 9, 1945, at the day of the end of World War II in Europe, Soviet troops entered the city. On May 17, 1945, Czech partisan units held court in Landskron, and many Germans were tortured to death.

Until the expulsion of Germans from the Czechoslovakia in 1946, the majority of population of the town was German.^[1] By now, most of the inhabitants are Czech people.

Lanškroun was the birthplace of Jan Marek Marci and Jan Smejkal.