Nový Jičín  Nový Jičín (; ) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has approximately 23,500 inhabitants. The city is situated on the spurs of the Carpathian Mountains about from the Czech Republic's 3rd biggest city, Ostrava. The city is noted for its hatting industry. The town was founded in 1311. Until 1918 the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 34 "Bezirkshauptmannschaften" in Moravia. The German population was expelled in 1945. Nový Jičín is twinned with: