Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

TABOR

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

TABOR , a See also:

town in western Bohemia, on the See also:Francis-See also:Joseph railway, 104 kilometres from See also:Prague. Pop. (1908) 10,703. It is the See also:chief town of a See also:government See also:district and the seat of a provincial See also:law-See also:court, and also of an See also:industrial school. The town was founded in 1420 by the more advanced party of the See also:church-reformers or See also:Hussites, who, as it became their centre, soon began to be known as the Taborites. The town is situated on the See also:summit of an isolated See also:hill separated from the surrounding See also:country by the Luznice stream and by an extensive See also:pond, to which the Hussites gave the biblical name of See also:Jordan. The See also:historical importance of the See also:city of Tabor only ceased when it was captured by See also:King See also:George of See also:Podebrad in 1452. Though a large See also:part of the See also:ancient fortifications has recently been demolished, Tabor—or Hradiste Hory Tabor, the See also:castle of the Tabor Hill, as it was called in the Hussite See also:period—has still preserved many memorials of its past fame. In the centre of the city is the See also:market-See also:place (rynk). Only very narrow streets See also:lead to it, to render the approach to it more difficult in See also:time of See also:war. In the centre of the market-place is the statue of 'Lizka, the greatest of the Taborite leaders. Here also is the diaconal church, built in 1516 in the See also:style of the Bohemian See also:Renaissance, and the town See also:hall, in connexion with which a museum has been founded, which contains interesting memorials of the Hussite period.

Some parts of the ancient fortifications and the very ancient Kotnov See also:

tower also still exist. See Thir, Hradiste Hory Tabor (1895).

End of Article: TABOR

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
TABOO (also written tapu and tabu)
[next]
TABRIZ