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 | | In 1278, Wenceslas II, who had succeeded Ottokar II, was defeated by Rudolf of Hapsburg at the battle of Marchfeld, and Ottokar's territory was thus reduced to Bohemia and Moravia. |
 | | In 1085, -when Vratislav II, the first king of Bohemia, was crowned, the Hradcany included edifices that symbolized both temporal and spiritual power: the castle (which had been rebuilt in the meantime) and the basilica of St. Vitus. |
 | | The wrought iron railing that encloses it in the front is surmounted by the imperial coat of arms of Maria Theresa in the center, and is interspersed with eight pillars on which stand gigantic replicas of the Gigantomachia sculpted by Ignaz Platzer in 1768. |
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