1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TEPLITZ (Czech, Teplice), or TEPLITZ-SCHONAU, as it is officially called since the incorporation of the village of Schonau in 1895, a town of Bohemia, Austria, 80 m. N.N.W. of Prague by rail. Pop. (1900) 24,420. It is picturesquely situated in the plain of the Biela, which separates the Erzgebirge from the Bohemian Mittelgebirge, and is a favourite watering-place, containing a large Kurhaus and numerous handsome bathhouses. The environs are laid out in pretty and shady gardens and promenades, the finest "being in t…
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