Moravany

Moravany is a municipality and village in Pardubice District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,900 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Čeradice, Moravanský, Platěnice, Platěnsko and Turov are administrative parts of Moravany. Geography Moravany is located about east of Pardubice. It lies in the East Elbe Table, on the edge of the Polabí region. The river Loučná flows through the municipality. The flooded quarry called Duhový Pond is located north of the village of Moravany. History The first written mention of Moravany is from 1244, when there already was a stronghold with a small settlement around it. In the 16th and 17th century there were many ponds but they were later dried during the German colonization and during the reign of Joseph II in 1782 they were turned into arable and given to settlers, mainly to the German ones.