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Služovice

village in Opava District of Moravian Silesian region

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1855314 ↗
Source-derived summary

Služovice (German: Schlausewitz) is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. It is part of the historic Hlučín Region.

Administrative division

Služovice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):

Služovice (683)

Vrbka (127)

History

The first written mention of Služovice is from 1349. The municipalities of Služovice and Vrbka were merged in 1979.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Služovice” as village in Opava District of Moravian Silesian region. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Služovice, village and Opava.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 1349, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Služovice, village and Opava providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Služovice”, the useful work is to connect “village in Opava District of Moravian Silesian region” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1855314. Authority coordinates are 49.989, 17.995. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1349 and 1979.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Služovice”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Služovice primary sources, Služovice archive and Služovice research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Služovice”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Služovice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.