Polička

Polička (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpolɪtʃka]; German: Politschka) is a town on Bohemia-Moravia borderline in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 10,000 inhabitants. It is about 17 km west of Svitavy. Polička was founded in the year 1265 by Bohemian king Přemysl Otakar II The name of the land Na polickach (On the Fields) appears already in the list of places which in 1167 King Vladislav I gave under the administration of the Praemonstratensian monastery in Litomyšl. A settlement was built there gradually in order to defend the country's trading path, leading from Moravia to Bohemia through dense forests. On September 27, 1265 King Přemysl Ottokar II issued a decree in which he ordered the Royal Administrator Conrad of...