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SCHLAN (Czech, Slang)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 328 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHLAN (See also:Czech, See also:Slang) , a See also:town of Bohemia, 37 M. N.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 9491, mostly Czech. The most notable churches are St Gotthard (14th See also:century, remodelled in 1782) St See also:Mary, attached to the Piarist See also:college (1655–1658), the See also:chapel of St See also:Lawrence (13th century) and the See also:church of the See also:Holy Trinity belonging to the Franciscan friary (1655). There are extensive See also:coal-See also:fields and important See also:iron, See also:metal and See also:machine See also:industries, together with the manufacture of chemicals and See also:corn-milling. Schlan—probably the name of a See also:castle—occurs in documents of the loth century. The town was probably founded in the 13th century by Ottakar II. In the Hussite See also:wars it took the utraquist See also:side, was occupied in 1420 by See also:King See also:Sigismund, but retaken the next See also:year by the troops of Prague. These were expelled, in 1425, after a desperate resistance by the Taborites and Orphans. The town now remained faithful to the Taborite cause till its collapse in 1434. The See also:place was re-fortified between 146o and 1472.

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battle of the See also:White See also:Hill (1620), Schlan was granted to Jaroslaus Boiita of Martinic, See also:lord of Smecno, whose descendants still own the lordship.

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