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The South Moravian Region is an administrative unit of the ___MASK74___ Republic , located in the south - western part of its historical region of Moravia ( an exception is Jobova Lhota which belongs to Bohemia ). Its capital is Brno , the 2nd largest city in the ___MASK74___ Republic . The region has 1 , 169 , 000 inhabitants ( as of 30 June 2013 ) and the total area of 7 , 196 . 5 km² . It is bordered by the South Bohemian Region ( west ), Vysoina Region ( north - west ), Pardubice Region ( north ), Olomouc Region ( north east ), Zlín Region ( east ), Slovakia ( south east ) and Austria ( south ). Baron Franz von der Trenck ( ___MASK38___ : Franz Freiherr von der Trenck , Croatian : Barun Franjo Trenk ) ( Reggio di Calabria . January 1 , 1711 -- Brno . October 4 , 1749 ) was an Austrian soldier . The ___MASK74___ Republic , also known by the short name Czechia , is a nation state in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west , Austria to the south , Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast . The ___MASK74___ Republic covers an area of with mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate . It is a unitary parliamentary republic , has 10 . 5 million inhabitants and the capital and largest city is Prague , with over 1 . 2 million residents . The ___MASK74___ Republic includes the historical territories of Bohemia , Moravia , and ___MASK74___ Silesia . Brno - City District (" Okres Brno - msto " in ___MASK74___ ) is one of seven districts (" okres ") within South Moravian Region (" Jihomoravský kraj ") of the ___MASK74___ Republic . The district is identical with the city of Brno . Brno ( ___MASK38___ : " Brünn ") is the second largest city in the ___MASK74___ Republic by population and area , the largest Moravian city , and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia . Brno is the administrative center of the South Moravian Region in which it forms a separate district ( Brno - City District ). The city lies at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers and has about 400 , 000 inhabitants ; its greater metropolitan area is home to more than 800 , 000 people while its larger urban zone had a population of about 730 , 000 in 2004 . It corresponds to baron in rank . " in the feudal system . The title ' derives from the historical geo - political situation in which an owner held free ( allodial ) title to his land , unlike the ordinary baron , who was originally a knight (') in vassalage to a higher lord or sovereign , and unlike medieval ___MASK38___ ministerials , who were bound to provide administrative services for a lord . A ' sometimes exercised hereditary administrative and judicial prerogatives over those resident in his barony instead of the liege lord , who might be the duke (') or count ("). Moravia is a historical country in the ___MASK74___ Republic ( forming its eastern part ) and one of the historical ___MASK74___ lands , together with Bohemia and ___MASK74___ Silesia . The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown ( from 1348 to 1918 ), an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire ( 1004 to 1806 ), later a crown land of the Austrian Empire ( 1804 to 1867 ) and briefly also one of 17 former crown lands of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro - Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918 . During the early 20th century , Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1928 ; it was then merged with ___MASK74___ Silesia , and eventually dissolved by abolition of the land system in 1949 . Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a sovereign state between Central Europe , Southeast Europe , and the Mediterranean . Its capital city is Zagreb , which forms one of the country ' s primary subdivisions , along with its twenty counties . Croatia covers and has diverse , mostly continental and Mediterranean climates . Croatia ' s Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands . The country ' s population is 4 . 28 million , most of whom are Croats , with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism . The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the ___MASK64___ Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges . The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea , extending from the Strait of Otranto ( where it connects to the Ionian Sea ) to the northwest and the Po Valley . The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Greece , Italy , Montenegro and Slovenia . The Adriatic contains over 1 , 300 islands , mostly located along its eastern , Croatian , coast . It is divided into three basins , the northern being the shallowest and the southern being the deepest , with a maximum depth of . The Otranto Sill , an underwater ridge , is located at the border between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas . The prevailing currents flow counterclockwise from the Strait of Otranto , along the eastern coast and back to the strait along the western ( ___MASK64___ ) coast . Tidal movements in the Adriatic are slight , although larger amplitudes are known to occur occasionally . The Adriatic ' s salinity is lower than the Mediterranean ' s because the Adriatic collects a third of the fresh water flowing into the Mediterranean , acting as a dilution basin . The surface water temperatures generally range from in summer to in winter , significantly moderating the Adriatic Basin ' s climate .