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See also:WENCESLAUS (1361-1419)
, See also:German See also: Many of the princes were angry at this See also:abandonment of Boniface by Wenceslaus, who had also aroused much indignation by his See also:long See also:absence from Germany and by selling the See also:title of duke of See also:Milan to Gian Galleazzo See also:Visconti . The consequence was that in See also:August 1400 the four Rhenish See also:electors met at See also:Oberlahnstein and declared Wenceslaus deposed . He was charged with attempting to dismember the empire to his own See also:advantage, with neglecting to end the See also:schism in the church, with allowing favourites to enrich themselves, and was further accused of murder . Though he remained in Bohemia he took no steps against See also:Rupert III. See also:count See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine, who had been elected as his successor . He soon quarrelled with Sigismund, who took him prisoner in 1402 and sent him to See also:Vienna, where he remained in captivity for nineteen months after abdicating in Bohemia . In 1404, when Sigismund was recalled to See also:Hungary, Wenceslaus regained his freedom and with it his authority in Bohemia; and after the See also:death of the German king Rupert in 1410 appears to have entertained hopes of recovering his former throne . Abandoning this See also:idea, however, he voted for the election of Sigismund in 1411, but stipulated that he should retain the title of king of the Romans . His concluding years were disturbed by the troubles which arose in Bohemia over the death of John See also:Huss, and which the vacillating king did nothing to check until compelled by Sigismund . In the midst of these disturbances he died at Prague on the 16th of August 1419 . His second wife was See also:Sophia, daughter of John, duke of Bavaria-See also:Munich, but he See also:left no See also:children . Wenceslaus was a capable and educated See also:man, but was lacking in perseverance and See also:industry . He neglected business for See also:pleasure and was much addicted to See also:drunkenness . He favoured the teaching of Huss, probably on See also:political grounds, but exercised very little influence during the Hussite struggle . See Th . Lindner, Geschichte See also:des deutschen Reiches vom Ende des 141en Jahrhunderts bis zur See also:Reformation, part i . (See also:Brunswick, 1875—188o), and " See also:Die Wahl Wenzels," in the Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, See also:Band xiv . (See also:Gottingen, 1862—1886) ; F . M . Pelzel, Lebensgeschichte des romischen and bohmischen Konigs Wenceslaus (Prague, 1788—179o) ; F . Palacky, Geschichte von Bohmen, Bande iii. and iv . (Prague, 1864—1874) ; H . Mau, See also:Konig See also:Wenzel and die rheinischen Kurfiirsten (See also:Rostock, 1887) . The See also:article by Th . Lindner in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Band xli., should also be consulted for a bibliography, and also the same writer's See also:work, Das Urkundenwesen Karls IV. and seiner Nacl folger (See also:Stuttgart, 1882) .
WEN-CHOW-FU, a prefectural See also:city in the See also:province of Chehkiang, See also:China, and one of the five ports opened by the Chifu See also:convention to See also:foreign See also:trade, situated (28° 1' N., 120° 31' E.) on the See also:south See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Gow, about 20 M. from the See also:sea
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The See also:population is estimated at 8o,000
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The site is said to have been chosen by Kwo P'oh (A.D
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276—324), a celebrated See also:antiquary who recognized in the adjacent See also:mountain peaks a See also:correspondence with the stars in the See also:constellation of the See also:Great See also:Bear, from which circumstance the See also:town was first known as the See also:Tow or Great Bear city
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Subsequently the See also:appearance in its vicinity of a See also: The See also:British See also:consul and the customs' outdoor See also:staff occupy foreign-built houses on See also:Conquest See also:Island, which lies abreast of the city . The neighbourhood is hilly and See also:pretty, while opposite the See also:north-See also:west See also:gate Conquest Island forms a picturesque See also:object . The island is, however, more beautiful than healthy . The See also:port, which was opened to foreign trade in 1876, has not justified the expectations which were formed of it as a commercial centre, and in 1908 the See also:direct foreign trade was valued at £19,000 only . There is no foreign See also:settlement at Wen-chow, and the foreign residents are mainly officials and missionaries . The See also:tea trade of Wen-chow-Fu, formerly important, has declined owing to care-less cultivation . A considerable native export trade in See also:wood, See also:charcoal, See also:bamboo, medicines, See also:paper umbrellas, oranges, See also:otter skins and See also:tobacco See also:leaf is carried on . The imports are chiefly See also:cotton See also:yarn and piece goods, kerosene oil, See also:palm-leaf fans, See also:aniline dyes, See also:sugar and matches . |
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