What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 25 August 2022.

Táboritská was built in 1885.

The Táborites have come up *cough* more than once *cough* in these posts, so here’s a quick brief.

They were radical Hussites, known as ‘Picards’ by their enemies.

Aiming to develop a communal society, they founded the town of Tábor in 1420, named after Mount Tabor in Galilee (the site of the transfiguration of Jesus).

They rejected ceremonies, priesthood, and vestments, as well as the worship of relics and images. They did not reject the wealth that came from the local gold mines, however.

In less peace-and-love-esque news, they saw it as their duty to kill all heretics, otherwise known as ‘everyone else’. This didn’t stop them from combining with other Hussite forces when the time was right.

Their army was commanded by Jan Žižka until he started to find the Táborites too radical, and left to form another group, the Orebites (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/12/04/prague-3-day-107-orebitska/), in Hradec Králové.

Their strength was broken at the Battle of Lipany in 1434 (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/12/23/prague-3-day-120-lipanska/), but their way of thinking still had a strong influence on the Moravian Brotherhood (Unitas Fratrum), founded in 1457 (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/26/prague-3-day-83-ceskobratrska/).

The most famous Táborites, other than Žižka, were Prokop Holý (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/23/prague-3-day-77-prokopova/), Mikuláš of Hus, Jan Roháč of Dubá (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/25/prague-3-day-81-rohacova/), Bohuslav of Švamberk and Chval Řepický of Machovice.