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Battle of Lipany

Battle of Lipany, Hussite wars, 1434.

In the Battle of Lipany, May 30, 1434, the united Utraquists[?] (mostly rich members of the nobility) and Catholics of Bohemia defeated the radical Taborites (mostly peasants), led by Procopius the Great[?].

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