Hořice is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,600 inhabitants. The name is probably deriv…Hořice is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,600 inhabitants. The name is probably derived from the personal name Hora, meaning "the village of Hora's people", but it could be also derived from the old Czech diminutive form of hora.