Olešnice (German: Oels) is a town in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. It has about 1,600 inhabitants. Olešnice is located about 27 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Blansko and 39 km (24 mi) north of Brno. It lies in the Upper Svratka Highlands. The highest point is the hill Kopaniny at 688 metres (2,257 ft) above sea level. The Hodonínka Stream flows through the town. The first written false record of Olešnice is from 1073, the document is however from 1163. During the colonization of the Bohemian border regions in the mid-13th century, German colonists built new settlement on the east bank opposite the village Olešnice in the area of today's marketplace. The original part of the village was called Moravian Olešnice while the German part was called German Olešnice. More information...
According to PR-model, olesnice.cz is ranked 1,036,250th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 14,723rd in Czech Wikipedia.
The website is placed before vsarc.ru and after toriesfightingfortheking.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
