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See also:KOMOTAU (See also:Czech, Chomiitov) , a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria 79 M. N.N.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 15,925, almost exclusively See also:German. It has an old See also:Gothic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and its town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall was formerly a See also:commandery of the See also:Teutonic knights. The See also:industrial establishments comprise manufactories of woollen See also:cloth, See also:linen and See also:paper, See also:dyeing houses, breweries, distilleries, See also:vinegar See also:works and the central workshops of the Buschtehrad railway. See also:Lignite is worked in the neighbourhood. Komotau was origin-ally a Czech See also:market-See also:place, but in 1252 it came into the See also:possession of the Teutonic See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order and was completely Germanized. In 1396 it received a town See also:charter; and in 1416 the knights sold both town and lordship to See also:Wenceslaus IV. On the 16th of See also:March 1421, the town was stormed by the Taborites, sacked and burned. After several changes of ownership, Komotau came in 1588 to Popel of Lobkovic, who established the See also:Jesuits here, which led to trouble between the See also:Protestant burghers and the over-See also:lord. In 1594 the lordship See also:fell to the See also:crown, and in 1605 the town See also:purchased its freedom and was created a royal See also:city.
End of Article: KOMOTAU (Czech, Chomiitov)
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