Jindřichův Hradec District

Jindřichův Hradec District (Czech: okres Jindřichův Hradec) is a district (okres) within South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Jindřichův Hradec. To the east, about a fifth of the region, including the historical towns of Dačice and Slavonice, historically belongs to Moravia.

Jindřichův Hradec District Okres Jindřichův Hradec
District
Jindřichův Hradec
District location in the South Bohemian Region within the Czech Republic
Country	Czech Republic
Region	South Bohemian
Capital	Jindřichův Hradec
Area
• Total	1,943.69 km2 (750.46 sq mi)
Population  (2019-01-01[1])
• Total	90,653
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Municipalities	106
* Towns	13
* Market towns	2
* Villages	91

As most of southern Bohemia, the district was ruled by the Vítkovci – descendants of Vítek z Prčice – from the turn of the 12th/13th century until the early modern era. One of the branches of Vítkovci – the Lords of Hradec (Páni z Hradce) – ruled over their large estates in the Bohemian-Moravian borderlands from the imposing residence in Jindřichův Hradec until their demise in 1598. As the most powerful family branch, the Rožmberkové held control over a mostly southern Bohemian dominium whose last center was based in Třeboň where the last male heir, Petr Vok, died in 1611. Two more out of the originally 5 branches of Vítkovci – Páni ze Stráže (Lords of Stráž, died out in 1470) and Páni z Landštejna (Lords of Landštejn, died out in 1612) – were also based in the current Jindřichův Hradec District.