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| ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Vysočina | Highlands (Jihlava) region |
| Okres: Havlíčkův Brod |
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Přibyslav is situated at an elevation of 475 m on the right bank of the river S´zava in the western part
of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, about 12 km southeast of the district town Havličkův Brod
and about 23 km northeast of the regional capital, Jihlava. The municipality has a population of
about 4,000 (2023).
Přibyslav is believed to have been founded in the first half of the 13th century. The village below the castle was first mentioned as a township in a document dating from 1251. In 1381 it received the privileges of a town. In October 1424 the town was conquered after a two-day siege by Jan Žižka who, four days laterdied at his camp, presumably from the Plague. Large parts of the town were destroyed by a large fire in 1767, another catastrophic fire occured in 1847.
Žižka's Mound (Žižkova mohyla) [left, no. 0000]
is a 16-m-high stone monument, marking the presumed location where Jan Žižka of Trocnov, the famous Hussite military
leader, died in his camp on 11 October 1424, although today many experts dispute that this is the exact location. The monument
was created by the prominent neo-Renaissance architect Antonín Wiehl in 1874. The monument actually stands within the
cadastre of the municipality of Žižkovo Pole, but the land and the mound are owned by the city of Přibyslav.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99ibyslav;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDi%C5%BEkovo_Pole]
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