krajnice

Krajnice is a Slavic toponym used for several settlements in Central Europe. The name appears in parts of the Czech Republic and Poland, where different villages or village parts bear the designation Krajnice.

In the Czech Republic, Krajnice refers to small rural communities that are typically part of larger municipalities. In Poland, Krajnice is the name of multiple villages located in different voivodeships. The distribution of places named Krajnice reflects common Slavic naming patterns in the region.

The toponym is generally considered to derive from roots related to kraj, meaning edge, border, or region, which in historical or geographical terms may reflect landscape features or territorial boundaries that influenced settlement names. In historical and cartographic sources, terms resembling krajnice have occasionally described boundary markers or frontier posts, though such usages are not universal and depend on the local context.

Today, settlements named Krajnice are primarily rural localities with governance structures under county and municipal authorities and with connections to regional transportation networks. The name is one of several Central European place-names formed with the suffix -ice, a common pattern in Slavic toponymy.

See also: Krajnica, a related toponym in some languages, and other similarly named places.