Vrbice (Bohumín)

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 Vrbice (help·info) (Polish: Wierzbica (info), German: Wirbitz) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Bohumín in 1974. It has a population of 469 (August 2009).[1]

It was first mentioned in the document of Pope Gregory IX issued for Benedictine abbey in Tyniec in 1229 as Wierzbica.[2] Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, and since 1290 to the Duchy of Teschen. The name of the village comes from the willow tree (Czech: vrba, Polish: wierzba), which grown here in the past in plenty.

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  1. ↑ Population statistics of Bohumín
  2. ↑ Panic, Idzi (2010). Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) [Cieszyn Silesia in Middle Ages (until 1528)] (in Polish). Cieszyn: Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie. p. 286. ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5. 

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Coordinates: 49°53′0″N 18°19′27″E / 49.88333°N 18.32417°E / 49.88333; 18.32417


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