Bílovec
Bílovec is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, near Nový Jičín. It is situated on the slopes of the Nízký Jeseník mountains and on the banks of the Bílovka River.
Bílovec is the birthplace of tennis players Květa Peschke and Petra Kvitová, internationally respected architect Emil Přikryl and Sudeten German social democratic politician Hugo Schmidt.History
Until 1918, Wagstadt was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the district with the same name, one of the eight Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Silesia.
In 1938, it was occupied by the Nazi Germany as one of the municipalities in the Sudetenland, the portion of Czechoslovakia turned over to Germany in wake of the Munich Agreement. After the conclusion of World War II, the German speaking population was expelled from the region in 1945 and replaced by Czech settlers.Education
The Grammar school of Nicolas Copernicus is located in Bílovec.Notable people
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