Knovíz

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Knovíz

Total population

509

Coordinates50.21°, 14.14°

Demographic figures from Czech Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Knovíz is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It gave its name to the Knovíz culture.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

M

Miroslav Rys

Czech footballer and ice hockey player (1932–2020)

Bedřich Neumann

Czechoslovak general

Rudolf Fuksa

Bedřich Švestka

Czech politician, academic and doctor (1912-1990)

V

Václav Junek

Czech music educator and trumpeter (1928–2022)

Václav Šašek

Czech scriptwriter (1933–2023)

Karel Lažnovský

Czech publicist (1906–1941)

K

Karel Stanislav

Czech writer (1907-1963)

Milan Babuška

Czech architect, conductor and university educator (1884–1953)

Miroslav Paleček

Czech singer

Naděžda Plíšková

Czech graphic, poet, sculptor and artist (1934–1999)

Stanislav Fischer

Czech president candidate (1998), member of Czech Parliament (1998–2006), astrophysicist and local politician

Jaroslav Paur

Czechoslovak painter (1918–1987)

Václav Šorel

Czech writer

J

Jaroslav Volf

Czech ice hockey player

P

Petr Novotný

Czech painter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Central Bohemian

• Srby
  7 mi away · pop. 355
• Noutonice
  7.1 mi away · pop. 93
• Drnek
  7.4 mi away · pop. 161
• Honice
  9 mi away · pop. 246
• Lukov
  9.4 mi away · pop. 77
• Brnky
  12.7 mi away · pop. 93
• Přemyšlení
  13.2 mi away · pop. 300
• Veliká Ves
  14.2 mi away · pop. 247
• Stradonice
  16 mi away · pop. 150
• Kuchař
  16.5 mi away · pop. 82
• Otročiněves
  17.5 mi away · pop. 434
• Solopisky
  18.7 mi away · pop. 148

Browse all places in Central Bohemian →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Official Identifiers