Austerlitz

noun

a town in S Moravia, in the SE Czech Republic: Russian and Austrian armies defeated by Napoleon I 1805.

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Austerlitz (ˈɔːstəlɪts)

—n
	Czech name: Slavkov a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)

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