!!!Hussitenkriege

Hussite Wars: After the execution of Jan Hus on July 6, 1415 in 
Constance a revolutionary movement formed in Bohemia, partly inspired 
by social concerns and nationalist ideas and directed against King 
Sigismund. As his son-in-law, Duke Albrecht V of Austria, had 
participated in military campaigns in Bohemia and Moravia from 1420 
on, Hussite troops invaded Austria 1425-1431 and devastated those 
parts of the country that lay north of the River Danube (Retz, Zwettl, 
Altenburg). As a consequence of the Hussite wars the Austrian national 
defence system was reorganised on the basis of districts.

!Literature
S. Petrin, Die Hussitenkriege in Niederoesterreich, 
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