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Cheb

Industrial town (textiles) in western Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, on the River Ohře near the German border, 145 km/91 mi west of Prague; population (2001) 32,900. The town has a 13th-century church and was formerly a strategic fortress.

Cheb Castle was built by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in the 12th century on the site of a Slav fort. The German general Albrecht Wallenstein was assassinated in Cheb 1634 during the Thirty Years' War. Before World War II, Cheb was the centre of the Sudeten German movement.
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