Třebíč

Třebíč is a town of about 34,000 inhabitants in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic, lying on the Jihlava River in the Jevišovice Uplands about 29 kilometres southeast of Jihlava and 52 kilometres west of Brno. Its history began with a Benedictine monastery founded here around 1101, and in the age of its expansion it ranked as the third most important town in Moravia. The Jewish Quarter and the St. Procopius Basilica are inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the well preserved historic centre is protected as an urban monument zone. In the 1930s the shoe factory was taken over by the Bata Corporation, and housing estates built in the 1970s and 1980s drove a period of population growth. The German name of the town is Trebitsch.