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ZNAIM (Czech Znojmo)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZNAIM (See also:Czech Znojmo) , a See also:town of See also:Austria, in See also:Moravia, 50 M. S.W. of Briinn by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 16,261, mostly See also:German. It is picturesquely situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Thaya. The site of the former fortifications is occupied by a See also:promenade. The Rauberturm is a relic of the old See also:castle of the margraves of Moravia; the See also:round castle-See also:chapel, known as the See also:heathen See also:temple (Heiden-Tempel), in the Romanesque See also:style of the 12th See also:century, was at one See also:time considered the most See also:ancient See also:building in Moravia. The See also:Gothic See also:church of St See also:Nicholas was built about 1348 by the See also:emperor See also:Charles IV.; the town See also:house, with a Gothic See also:tower, 250 ft. high, See also:dates from about 1446. The ancient and once powerful Premonstratensian See also:abbey of Bruck, See also:east of the town, is now occupied as See also:barracks. The See also:present town of Znaim was founded in 1226 by Ottacar I. of Bohemia on the site of Znojmo, the ancient See also:capital of the tributary margraves of Moravia, which had been destroyed in 1145. Znaim is best known to See also:history for the See also:armistice concluded here in 1809 after the See also:battle of See also:Wagram between See also:Napoleon I. and the See also:archduke Charles. In 1866 the Prussians occupied the town from See also:July 13th till See also:September 3rd.

The novelist Karl Postl (1793-1864), who wrote under the See also:

pseudonym of Charles See also:Sealsfield, was See also:born at Poppitz, 21 m. S.W.

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