Tábor
Tábor is a town of Bohemia of the South on the Lužnice river. With: 37000 inhabitants, it is after České Budějovice, the second city of the area of Bohemia of the South of which it is distant of 60 km in north (and 80 km in the south of Prague).
The name of the city means camp or Czech camping in . The Hussites, deeply monks, who named it by establishing their general headquarters on the ruins of a castle-extremely, also could refer to the Mont Tabor of the Bible, since they baptized “the Jordan” the reserve of water on Lužnica which bordered the walls of them.
History
If the presence of a Oppidum Celte on the site remains hypothetical, the discovery of potteries of the Civilization of Hallstatt and parts of the emperor Hadrian testify to an ancient human presence and wide commercial links.With the 13th century, Otakar II Přemysl made there build a castle-extremely (Hradiště). It is in 1420 that really the history of the town of Tabor starts founded by Hussites. It becomes royal city in 1437.
It is destroyed by a fire in 1532.
At the 18th century and 19th century, it is prefectoral city, statute which it loses at the beginning of the 20th century. At present, Tábor is a tourist destination on the road which connects Prague to Český Krumlov.
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- Tábor - Czech.cz
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