Klatovy
Klatovy (; ) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administrative parts. Klatovy is made up of 30 administrative parts (5 town parts and 25 villages): Habartice, Kvaslice and Vítkovice, and Dobrá Voda, Křištín and Střeziměř makes two exclaves of the municipal territory. History. The first written mention of Klatovy is from 1253. Between 1260 and 1263, a royal town was made from the settlement by Ottokar II of Bohemia. The town walls were built and  at the beginning of the 16th century, Klatovy was one of the ten most important towns in Czech lands. During World War II, Klatovy was deprived of its natural administrative territory when large parts of Šumava were annexed to the Reich (the border was between Janovice nad Úhlavou and Nýrsko and south of Sušice). At that time, Klatovy was the center of the resistance movement, which was harshly suppressed by the execution of 73 patriots in the Lubský Forest at the time of Heydrich. In 1945, some parts of the city were badly damaged by bombing – the railway station building  was completely destroyed. The city was liberated on 5 May 1945 by the US Army. The town's significant German population was expelled from their home in 1945. Sport. The town's football club SK Klatovy 1898 is one of the oldest football clubs in the country. Nowadays it plays in the fourth tier of the Czech football system. Sights. The oldest part of the town surrounded by fragments of town walls is protected as an urban monument zone since 1992. The mains sights are: Twin towns – sister cities. Klatovy is twinned with: