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In around 1270, a short-lived settlement called Hradiště (meaning "gord") was founded, which was destroyed most likely in a rebellion against King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1276. [7] Tábor was founded in the spring of 1420, probably by Petr Hromádka of Jistebnice and other members of the most radical wing of the Hussites, who became known as ...
Coat of arms of Tábor until 1437. The Taborites were centered in the Bohemian town of Tábor during the Hussite Wars in the 15th century. The religious reform movement in Bohemia splintered into various religious sects. Besides the Taborites, these included the Adamites, the Orebites, the Sirotci ("Orphans"), the Utraquists and the Praguers.
The territory extends into four geomorphological mesoregions: Tábor Uplands (west and centre), Vlašim Uplands (north), Křemešník Highlands (east) and Třeboň Basin (south). The highest point of the district is the hill Batkovy in Pohnání with an elevation of 724 m (2,375 ft), the lowest point is the river bed of the Lužnice in Bechyně ...
Bohemia (/ b o ʊ ˈ h iː m i ə / boh-HEE ... The radical Hussites became known as Taborites, after the town of Tábor that became their center. During the ...
Bohemia was for a time free from foreign intervention, but internal discord again broke out, caused partly by theological strife and partly by the ambition of agitators. On 9 March 1422, Jan Želivský was arrested by the town council of Prague and beheaded. There were troubles at Tábor also, where a more radical party opposed Žižka's authority.
The South Bohemian Region (Czech: Jihočeský kraj) is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia.
Nemyšl (German: Nemischl) is a municipality and village in Tábor District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants. It has about 300 inhabitants. Nemyšl lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) north of Tábor , 63 km (39 mi) north of České Budějovice , and 67 km (42 mi) south of Prague .
Statue of Žižka in Tábor's town square (Žižka Square), J. Strachovský, 1884. Early in 1423, internal dissent among the Hussites led to civil war. Žižka, as leader of the Taborites, defeated the men of Prague and the Utraquist nobles at Hořice on 20 April. Shortly afterwards came news that a new crusade against Bohemia was being prepared.