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Tábor, Czech Republic

Tabor is a medieval town strongly connected with one of the most famous periods of the Czech history - the Hussite Movement and Hussite Wars. One of it's founders, Jan Zizka from Trocnov was a bohemian military warlord.

The town was founded in the spring of 1420 by Petr Hromádka of Jistebnice and Jan Bydlínský of Bydlín from the most radical wing of the Hussites, who soon became known as the Taborites.

More recently the town became known for the years in which it flourished as an egalitarian peasant commune. This spirit, celebrated in Smetana's "Song of Freedom", made famous in the English-speaking world by Paul Robeson's recording in Czech and English.

The historical part of the town is situated on the summit of an isolated hill separated from the surrounding country by the Lužnice river and by an extensive lake, to which the Hussites gave the biblical name of Jordan. This lake, founded 1492, is the oldest reservoir of its kind in Central Europe.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1bor

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