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Moravia, Czech Republic Luxury Hotels, Inns, Villas, Vacations and Experiential Travel Packages
The eastern part of the country, Moravia (with a part of former Silesia), has some 4 million inhabitants, measures 10,177 square miles (26,095 sq. km) in area, and lies between the Bohemia-Moravian Highlands to the west, Jesemlc and Beskydy to the north, and the western Beskides and the White Carpathians to the east. To the south, the valley of March (Morava) extends towards Austria. Moravia is divided into the regions of Northern and Southern Moravia. Its main city, Brno, is at once Moravia's capital and the provincial capital of Southern Moravia. The capital of Northern Moravia, Ostrava, is the third-largest city in the whole Republic with 328,000 inhabitants. Highest elevation here is the mountain of Hruby Jesenik, measuring 4,875 feet (1,491 m).
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The so-called Moravian Gate (Moravska brana), through which the Oder flows northward, helped Moravia develop into a thoroughfare for foreign trade. The "Amber Road," which led through here, linked the Baltic with the Adriatic. The March Valley is particularly fertile, and has made Moravia a wine-growing region.
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