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Multi-periodSite Name: Žuráň Mound Alternative Name: Mohyla ŽuráňCountry: Czech Republic
NOTE: This site is 15.314 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Moravia Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Brno Nearest Village: Šlapanice
Latitude: 49.179657N Longitude: 16.738135E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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So called "Žuráň" is a distinctive hillock of an artificial origin east of the Moravian metropol Brno. As archaeological finds confirmed it was used for burial purposes already in the late Stone Age and Hallstatt. The intensive survey in the 50th also discovered two chamber tombs from the Migration Period of quite exceptional importance.
Above both chamber graves was built a huge circular structure with a diameter of 65 m and 14 m height! Despite these greves were robbed during later centuries it is obvious that it served as a burial place of high-ranking Germanic aristocrats. Some theories associate this with Lombard King Wacho but recent evidence shows rather to Silinga, third wife of King Wacho and mother of his only son Walthari.
But the landscape dominance of Žuráň brought this site once more into the center of attention. And of an European significance directly. Literally. In 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte led the battle of Austerlitz known as the Battle of Three Emperors exactly from here because of its strategic position. I can only recommend visiting this memorial place today since it is well signposted and has a truly magnificent atmosphere.
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