Czaslau (Bohemian Cáslav), a town of Bohemia, 40 miles ESE. of Prague by rail, with manufactures of beet-sugar and alcohol. Its church, in which the Hussite leader Ziska was buried, is surmounted by the highest steeple in Bohemia (290 feet). The place was the scene of an important victory gained over the Austrians by Frederick the Great, 17th May 1742. Pop. 6878.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 647–648
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