Petrovice u Karviné

Petrovice u Karviné (help·info) (1920-1952: Petrovice) (Polish: Piotrowice koło Karwiny (info), German: Petrowitz bei Freistadt) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It has a population of 5,211 (2006), which makes it the second largest village in the Czech Republic (meaning a municipality without an official town status according to Czech laws). 16.2% of the population are the Poles. It lies on the border with Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The Petrůvka River flows through the village and enters the Olza River in Závada. After the wary division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, the village became part of Czechoslovakia as Petrovice. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938,...