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See also:PILSEN (See also:Czech, Plzen) , a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 68 m. W.S.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 68,292, of which 94% are Czech. It is the second town of Bohemia, and lies at the confluence of the Radbusa and the Mies. It consists of the town proper, which is regularly built and surrounded with promenades on the site of the old ramparts, and of three suburbs. The most prominent buildings are the 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 of St See also:Bartholomew, said to date from 1292, whose See also:tower (325 ft.) is the highest in Bohemia, and the See also:fine See also:Renaissance 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 dating from the 16th See also:century. The See also:staple See also:article of manufacture and See also:commerce is See also:beer, which is exported to all parts of the See also:world. Other See also:industrial products are machinery, enamelled tinware, See also:leather, See also:alum, See also:paper, earthenware, stoves and See also:spirits, while a tolerably brisk See also:trade is carried on in See also:wool, feathers, See also:cattle and horses. In the neighbourhood are several See also:coal-pits, See also:iron-See also:works and See also:glass-works, as well as large deposits of See also:kaolin.
Pilsen first appears in See also:history in 976, as the See also:scene of a See also:battle in the See also:war between See also:Prince Boleslaus and the See also:emperor See also:Otto II., and it became a town in 1272. During the Hussite See also:wars it was the centre of See also:Catholic resistance to the See also:Hussites; it was three times unsuccessfully besieged by See also:Prokop the See also:Great, and it took See also:part in the See also:league of the Romanist lords against See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:George of See also:Podebrad. During the See also:Thirty Years' War the town was taken by See also:Mansfield in 1618 and not recaptured by the Imperialists till 1621. See also:Wallenstein made it his See also:winter-quarters in 1633, and it was in the great hall of the Rathaus that his generals took the See also:oath of fidelity to him (See also:January 1634). The town was unsuccessfully besieged by the Swedes in 1637 and 1648. The first Bohemian See also:printing See also:press was established here in 1468.
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