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Jankovská was built in 1941.

Jankov is a village in South Bohemia, about 13 kilometres of České Budějovice. It has a population of about 390.

The earliest mention we know of is in a Land Register from 1379; Its name indicates that it was once the estate of someone called Janek.

In 1964, a neighbouring municipality, Holašovice, was annexed to Jankov; prior to 1945, Holašovice had been entirely German-speaking, whereas Jankov had been ethnically Czech.

However, rather than being repopulated after the German residents were removed, Holašovice remained uninhabited until 1990; eight years later, it became a UNESCO World Heritage site.