Jeseníky, Jesenicko, Hrubý and Nízký Jeseník, Jesenická region - knowing these terms is not easy, but we should try to start talking about the highest mountains of Moravia and our Silesia.

When the Jeseníky Mountains are mentioned, people usually think of the mountains of Hrubé Jeseník, plus or minus some surroundings, but only vaguely, usually based on their own experience from a spa, tourist or skiing stay. Some book tourist guides then understand this well-known name more broadly and for the most part identify it with the Jesenice region in the sense of the content of the name of the taxonomic unit of the geomorphological division of the republic. But there are also conservationists called the Jeseníky Protected Landscape Area, which covers mainly Hrubý Jeseník. And the term Jesenicko today most often refers to a region roughly identical to the former district of Jeseník. However, to make things unclear, it is further divided into four micro-regions: Javornicko, Žulovsko, Zlatohorsko and – you guessed it, Jesenicko. However, the origin of the word Jeseník itself is ambiguous. There are still conjectures about what came first, whether the German name Gesenke (translated from German "lowland") developed from the Czech Jeseník (autumn stream, meaning "flowing in a grove of ash trees"), or whether it was the other way around. Everything is clear about the town of Jeseník, it only got its current name in 1947, before that it was called Freiwaldow and during the first republic, Frývaldov...