Stonava
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| Coordinates: 49°48′44″N 18°31′50″E / 49.81222°N 18.53056°E | |||
| Country | Czech Republic | ||
| Region | Moravian-Silesian | ||
| District | Karviná | ||
| First mentioned | 1388 | ||
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| • Mayor | Andrzej Feber | ||
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| • Total | 13.87 km2 (5.36 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 193 m (633 ft) | ||
| Population (2012) | |||
| • Total | 1,828 | ||
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | 735 34 | ||
| Website | http://www.stonava.cz/ | ||
Stonava (Polish: 
Stonawa , German: Steinau) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, on the Stonávka River. It has a population of 1,855 (2006), 25.8% of the population are the Poles. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The name is of topographic origin, derived from the older name of a local Stonávka/Stonawa River, which itself denoted a murmuring river.
The village could have been first mentioned in 1388 as Stoena (Stozna?). As Stonawa it was then mentioned in 1432, a German name Steinau appeared in the 17th century.
Politically the village belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of the Habsburg Monarchy.
The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among the 50 parishes of Teschen deanery as Stinavia. After the 1540s Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings in the region) by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 26 March 1654.
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