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austerlitz

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Aus⋅ter⋅litz

[aw-ster-lits; Ger. ous-tuhr-lits]
–noun
a town in S Moravia, in the SE Czech Republic: Russian and Austrian armies defeated by Napoleon I 1805.
Czech, Slavkov.
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Aus·ter·litz   (ô'stər-lĭts', ous'tər-)   
A town of southeast Czech Republic. Nearby, on December 2, 1805, Napoleon decisively defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.
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