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SAAZ (Czech lake)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAAZ (See also:Czech See also:lake) , a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 64 m. N.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 16,168, mostly See also:German. It lies on the See also:Eger, which is spanned here by a suspension See also:bridge, 210 ft. See also:long, which is the See also:oldest of its See also:kind in Bohemia, having been constructed in 1826. It possesses several See also:ancient churches, of which one is said to date from 1206, and a town See also:hall built in 1559. Saaz is the centre of the extensive See also:hop See also:trade of the neighbourhood. In See also:early times it was the seat of a royal See also:count (Gupan or gaugraf). A coat-of-arms was given to the inhabitants by See also:Ladislaus for their courage during the storming of See also:Milan; and the See also:place is mentioned as a royal town under Ottokar II. From the outbreak of the Hussite See also:Wars to the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War Saaz was Hussite or See also:Protestant, but after the See also:battle of the See also:White See also:Mountain (1620) the greater See also:part of the Bohemian in-habitants See also:left the town, which became German and See also:Roman See also:Catholic.

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