Iglau

Iglau (Bohm. Jihlava), the second largest town of Moravia, is situated 1703 feet above sea-level, on the river Iglawa, close to the Bohemian boundary, 123 miles NNW. of Vienna by rail. It has some old churches (one founded in 799). Its staple industries have always been the manufacture of cloth and woollen goods; glass and tobacco are also manufactured. It has a large trade in corn, flax, wool, cloth, and timber. Pop. (1880) 12,378; (1890) 23,716. Here in 1436 the Emperor Sigismund signed the Prague Compactata, after which he was accepted as king by the Bohemians. In the Thirty Years' War it was taken by the Swedes and recaptured by the Imperialists.