Tábor is a town in the
Czech Republic, 50 miles south of
Prague. Founded in
1420 by
Jan Zizka and other followers of
John Huss at the start of the
Hussite Wars, the town is protected on two sides by the
Luznice river, on another by
Jordán pond, and the rest was encircled with fortifications. The city streets themselves were made ridiculously narrow to impede movement of any potential invaders.
The city was decimated during the Thirty Years' War, and never really recovered. Today it contains a few factories and about 35,000 people.