Karviná

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Karviná

 

a city in Czechoslovakia, in the Czech Socialist Republic; located in the region of Northern Moravia. Population, 77, 100 (1970). It is a major center for coal mining in the Ostrava-Karviná coal basin. Industry includes the production of coke and metalworking. There is also a steam power plant.

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