Milíre (Tachov District)
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Milíře (German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
: (Tachauer) Brand) is a village in the Czech Republik, in the region of Plzeň, near the town of Tachov
Tachov
Tachov is a town in the Pilsen Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Mže River, some to the west from the region capital of Pilsen....
(German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
: Tachau).
The first written document mentioning Milíře comes from 1669. The church of Miliře was built in 1814.
In 1946 most German-speaking inhabitants, the majority in the village and the Tachov area, were expelled
Expulsion of Germans after World War II
The later stages of World War II, and the period after the end of that war, saw the forced migration of millions of German nationals and ethnic Germans from various European states and territories, mostly into the areas which would become post-war Germany and post-war Austria...
. After the war, the area was only partly repopulated.
After the "velvet revolution" (1989), German companies started to operate factories to make use of the cheap labour in the Tachov area. However, the area is still among the economically least developed Czech regions.
In 1999 the future king of the Netherlands, Prince Willem Alexander, came to shoot pheasants in Miliře. See: "Social dynamics in a Bohemian village" (external link below).
Other towns in Tachov miniregion
Konstantinovy LázněKonstantinovy Lázně
Konstantinovy Lázně is a village and municipality in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 937 ....
, Rozvadov
Rozvadov
Rozvadov is a village and municipality in Tachov District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic, on the border with Germany.The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 821 ....
, Stříbro
Stríbro
Stříbro is a town in the Pilsen Region of the Czech Republic, some to the west from the region capital of Pilsen.Stříbro is also the seat of the Municipality with Extended Competence....
, Kladruby
Kladruby (Tachov District)
Kladruby is a town in the Czech Republic, in the region of Plzeň, near the town Stříbro.The Abbey of Kladruby is a large Benedictine monastery first cited 1115...
, chateau Trpisty
Trpisty
Château Trpísty is a late baroque 18th century manor house located at Trpísty in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic...
, Halže
Halže
Halže is a village in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It lies near the town of Tachov . It has around 940 inhabitants.The natural western border is formed by the Bohemian Forest...
, Tachov
Tachov
Tachov is a town in the Pilsen Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Mže River, some to the west from the region capital of Pilsen....
.