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Cheb (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.1333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 012 28 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 12.4667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Cheb is located in far western Bohemia in the Czech Republic, on the Ohře River near the German border. It was fortified with a castle in the 12th century. The town fell to Bohemian king Otakar I in the 13th century. Sitting as it did on the easiest route to Bohemia from the northwest, it was often attacked, including in the Hussite wars (1419-1436), the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), and the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Following the end of World War II the population, mostly of German descent, was forced to leave. The modern town produces leather goods, beer, bicycles, motorbikes, textiles, carpets, and farm machinery. The 2003 estimated population was 33,400. |
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| Cheb (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Cheb (Czech-P,U,N)
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| Eger (C,V,English)
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| Eger (German-P,U,N)
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| אגר (C,U,Hebrew )
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Cheb (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was important medieval center |
| city (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| political center (H) |
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especially noted as site of assassination of A Wenzel von Wallenstein, duke of Friedland, and his officers in 1634 |
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