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Austerlitz

//ˈɔstɚlɪts// name

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  1. 1
    Former name of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.

    "That dinner at the King’s Arms with his friends had been Henchard’s Austerlitz: he had had his successes since, but his course had not been upward."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Austerlitz, perhaps from an earlier Neusedlitz, borrowed from an old Czech name Novosedlice.

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