!!!Weißer Berg

Weisser Berg (Bilá Hora), Prague, Czech Republic. Place where 
the first decisive battle of the  Thirty Years´ War was fought 
on November 8, 1620, in the course of which the army of the Bohemian 
Estates was routed by the troops of Emperor Ferdinand II and the 
Catholic League (1,500 men of the imperial troops and 3,000 men of the 
Bohemian army were killed). A chapel and a Baroque church dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary (1704-1714) were erected on the site of the battle.


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