Děčín
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English
Proper noun
Děčín
- A city in the northern Czech Republic, on the River Elbe.
Usage notes
The city has had a chequered history, being part of Germany, then Czechoslovakia; the German name was Tetschen, later Tetschen-Bodenbach under Nazi occupation, Bodenbach being across the Elbe from Tetschen.
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Děčín m inan (related adjective děčínský)
- A town in the northern Czech Republic situated at the confluence of the rivers Elbe and Ploučnice
Declension
Further reading
- “Děčín”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)