Horní Žukov

Horní Žukovⓘ (Polish: Żuków Górnyⓘ, German: Ober Zukau) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.

[1] The name of the village is possessive in origin derived from personal name Żuk (Żuk/Žuk means beetle in both Polish and Czech).

[2] The village of Žukov was first mentioned in the document of Pope Gregory IX issued for Benedictine abbey in Tyniec in 1229 as Zukow.

According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality dropped from 886 in 1880 to 859 in 1910 with the majority being native Polish-speakers (between 95.8% and 98.8%) accompanied by a small German-speaking minority (at most 26 or 3% in 1890) and Czech-speaking (at most 10 or 1.2% in 1890).

Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Zaolzie region it was annexed by Poland, administratively adjoined to Cieszyn County of Silesian Voivodeship.