ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA	CZECH REPUBLIC
Pardubický kraj	Pardubice region
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Holice (German: Holitz) is situated at an elevation of 244 m in the Pardubice district of eastern Bohemia.

Holice was first mentioned in 1336 as Ekleinsdorf; further names mentioned in further documents were Eckleinsdorf and Helitz. In 1493, the settlement became a town and gained the right to brew beer. In 1680 the town gained the right to hold three annual markets and a weekly market. The official status as a town was granted in 1931.

The picture on glass no. 1624 [left] shows the market square in the centre of Holice. Today the square is named for Tomáš G. Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia.

The monument for Dr. Emil Holub [left] was erected in 1949. Emil Holub (1847–1902) was born in Holice and became a physician. He became well-known for his expeditions to Africa (1872–1879 and 1883–1887) which took him to the Lozi empire and towards the Tswana groups in present-day Botswana. Holub donated his extensive ethnographic collections containing tens of thousands of items to numerous museums and schools. He was made a honorary freeman of Holice in 1880. The Dr. Emil Holub African Museum was opened in 1964.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holice_v_Čechách; https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holice; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Holub]