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| | Plzen - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The most prominent monuments are the Gothic church of St. Bartholomew, said to date from 1292, whose tower (100 m) is the highest in the Czech Republic, the Renaissance town hall dating from the 16th century, and the third largest synagogue in the world (after Jerusalem and Budapest). |
 | | Plzeň first appears in history in 976, as the scene of a battle in the war between Prince Boleslaus II and the emperor Otto II, and it became a town in 1295, established by Wenceslaus II. |
 | | At the end of the Second World War, on May 6, 1945, Plzeň (and Western Bohemia) was liberated from the Nazis by General Patton, unlike the rest of Czechoslovakia that was freed by the Red Army. |
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