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Hodonín.''
Location of Hodonín in the Czech Republic
'Hodonín' (, ) is a town on the River
Morava in the southeast of
Moravia, in the
Czech Republic. It lies in the
South Moravian Region. The population is 26,226 (
2006). Hodonín was first mentioned in
1046. In
1228 it became a town. In
1850 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first
president of independent
Czechoslovakia, was born here.
In the vicinity of the town there is an
oil field and a strata of
lignite, which was formerly transported to the town of
Otrokovice, a few kilometers from the city of
Zlín, by a special water channel known as the
Baťův kanál. It was built by the famous
Czech entrepreneur
Tomáš Baťa and now operates as a tourist attraction.
External links
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Municipal website (cz)
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