Pardubice Region
Svitavy District
Svitavy

Svitavy

Svitavy is a town in in the of the . It has about 16,000 inhabitants. It is the birthplace of Oskar Schindler and the centre of the Czech Esperanto movement.
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  • Type: Town with 16,600 residents
  • Description: town in Czechia
  • Also known as: “Svitave”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Esperanto Museum in Svitavy and Náměstí Míru.

Museum
Photo: Esperanto-klubo Písek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum in Svitavy in the . It presents the history and current activity of the Esperanto movement. It was inaugurated in September 2008.

Square
Photo: Packa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a square.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Javorník and Vendolí.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality and village in in the of the . It has about 400 inhabitants. is situated 4 km northwest of Svitavy.

Village
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is a municipality and village in in the of the . It has about 1,000 inhabitants. lies approximately 5 kilometres south-west of Svitavy, 57 km south-east of , and 148 km east of . is situated 4½ km southwest of Svitavy.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and village in in the of the . It has about 400 inhabitants. is situated 4½ km southeast of Svitavy.

Svitavy

Latitude
49.75621° or 49° 45′ 22″ north
Longitude
16.4689° or 16° 28′ 8″ east
Population
16,600
Elevation
442 metres (1,450 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CZ STV
Open location code
8FXRQF49+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1586596855
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3064454
Wiki­data ID
Q755698
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Svitavy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سفيتافي”
  • Armenian: “Սվիտավի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Svitavi”
  • Basque: “Svitavy”
  • Belarusian: “Світаві”
  • Belarusian: “Світавы”
  • Belarusian: “Цвітау”
  • Bulgarian: “Свитави”
  • Catalan: “Svitavy”
  • Cebuano: “Svitavy”
  • Chinese: “Svitavy”
  • Chinese: “斯維塔維”
  • Chinese: “斯维塔维”
  • Czech: “Svitavy”
  • Danish: “Svitavy”
  • Dutch: “Svitavy”
  • Dutch: “Zwittau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سفيتافى”
  • Esperanto: “Svitavy”
  • Estonian: “Svitavy”
  • Finnish: “Svitavy”
  • French: “Svitavy”
  • French: “Zwittau”
  • German: “Svitavy”
  • German: “Zwittau”
  • Hebrew: “צוויטאו”
  • Hungarian: “Svitavy”
  • Irish: “Svitavy”
  • Italian: “Svitavy”
  • Japanese: “スヴィタヴィ”
  • Japanese: “スビタビ”
  • Kazakh: “Svïtavï”
  • Kazakh: “Свитави”
  • Kazakh: “سۆىيتاۆىي”
  • Latvian: “Svitavi”
  • Lithuanian: “Svitavai”
  • Lombard: “Svitavy”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Svitavy”
  • Malay: “Svitavy”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Svitavy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Svitavy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svitavy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zwittau”
  • Norwegian: “Svitavy”
  • Persian: “سویتاوی”
  • Polish: “Svitavy”
  • Portuguese: “Svitavy”
  • Romanian: “Svitavy”
  • Russian: “Свитави”
  • Russian: “Свитавы”
  • Russian: “Цвиттау”
  • Serbian: “Svitavi”
  • Serbian: “Svitavy”
  • Serbian: “Свитави”
  • Slovak: “Svitavy”
  • Slovenian: “Svitavy”
  • Spanish: “Svitavy”
  • Swedish: “Svitavy”
  • Tatar: “Свитави”
  • Turkish: “Svitavy”
  • Ukrainian: “Світави”
  • Vietnamese: “Svitavy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Svitavy”
  • “Svitavy”
  • “Zwittau”

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