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Tisá
Tisá () is a municipality and village in Ústí nad Labem District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. Etymology The name is derived from the Proto-Slavic word ''tes'' and the Czech word ''tis'', meaning ' yew'. Geography Tisá is located about north of Ústí nad Labem, on the border with Germany. It lies mostly in the western tip of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the eponymous protected landscape area. The southern part of the municipal territory lies in the Ore Mountains. Tisá is known for a group of rocks within the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, the Tisá Rocks, which are protected as a nature monument. History Around the year 500, a group of the Slavs The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and ... came to the area of to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tisá Rocks
The Tisá Rocks or Tisá Walls (; ) are a group of rocks in Tisá in the Czech Republic. It is located in the western Elbe Sandstone Mountains, not far from its topographical boundary with the Ore Mountains. The region, with its rock pillars up to 30 m high, is one of the major tourist attractions of the region. The Tisá Rocks and the neighbouring Bürschlické Rocks are protected as a nature monument. Topography and geology The Tisá Rocks are located at a height of about 600 m above sea level. They form a line of rock outcrops drawn up in an arc on the westernmost edge of the sandstone beds of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains from the Ore Mountain escarpment on Czech soil. About a kilometre west of them on the outskirts of Tisá stands the coarse- and medium-grained muscovite-biotite Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula . It is primarily a solid-solution series between the iron- endmember annite, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
