Castles of "Czech Republic" HORAŽĎOVICE vs HORŠOVSKÝ TÝN

Horažďovice ([ˈɦoraʒɟovɪtsɛ] (About this soundlisten); German: Horaschdowitz) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Otava River, some 50 km (31 mi) to the South-East from the region capital of Plzeň. It has about 5,200 inhabitants. Horažďovice is also a Municipality with Extended Competence and a Municipality with Commissioned Local Authority within the same borders. A fortified settlement was established here in the 10th century and two centuries later the stone castle became an administrative centre of the Prácheň region (embracing today’s region of Horažďovice, Sušice, Kašperské Hory, Strakonice and Vimperk). When the stronghold lost its significance, the centre was moved to a settlement on the Otava river.

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Horšovský Týn (Czech pronunciation: [ˈhorʃofskiː ˈtiːn]; German: Bischofteinitz) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,000 inhabitants. It lies on the River Radbuza, some 40 km (25 mi) south-west of the region capital Plzeň. A settlement on the right bank of the Radbuza river was first established in the mid-13th century, on land owned by the archbishops of Prague. The town was besieged and defended during the Hussite wars between 1422 and 1431. The German Elector John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt) helped relieve the town. After the death of Louis II of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent state of the Habsburg Monarchy to 1918.

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