Tabor Town and Surroundings & 17607 Taborsko Asteroid - Tábor, Czech Republic
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N 49° 24.845 E 014° 39.528
33U E 475251 N 5473545
Taborsko [EN: Tabor Town and Surroundings]
Waymark Code: WMWRPR
Location: Jihočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 10/08/2017
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The town Tábor is one of the most beautiful South Bohemian towns. It is an important cultural and economic centre of the region, the second largest town in South Bohemia.
Táborsko is a south Bohemian district historically known for the Hussite religious reformatory movement in the fifteenth century. Its center is Tábor, the second largest south Bohemian town, founded in 1420 with a beautiful historical center situated above the Lužnice river and the Jordán pond.
The history of this well-known centre of the Hussites dates back to the 13th century - some sources allege the existence of the prehistoric Celtic hillfort in the 1st century B.C. The town with the castle were founded in about 1270 by King Premysl Ottakar II in the strategic position on the rock spit above the valley of the Lužnice river. First it was called Hradište nad Lužnicí ("Fort Above Lužnice"). It was soon destroyed. The castle, later called Kotnov, was built in the 14th century near the old road to the town Sezimovo Ústí. In 1420 the Hussites built a new town called Hradište hory Tábor ("Fort of the Tábor Mountain") around the castle. It became a royal town in 1437. The second town walls were added during the 1430's and 1440's and Tábor became the best fortified town in Europe. After the beginning of the Thirty Years' War Tábor was besieged for one year by Emperor's army and then it was captured. It lost all properties and holding rights. The decline was crowned with the invasion of the Swedish in 1648. The new growth began in the 19th century again with the oncoming of industry and railroads.
17607 Taborsko Asteroid is a main-belt asteroid.
Discovered by: M. Tichy and Z. Moravec
Date of discovery: 1995, Oct. 2
Place of discovery: Klet Observatory
Website of the Extraterrestrial Location: [Web Link]
Website of location on Earth: [Web Link]
Celestial Body: Asteroid
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