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32 g (1/) Hussites, followers of John →Hus in 321 Bohemia, who collapsed after its burning at the Council of Constance. They disintegrated into two groups, a moderate, the Prags or Nalixtines [of lat. calix 'Kelch'], also Utraquisten of lats. sub utraque specie Evening Meal under both forms, and a radical, the Taborites, whose center was the city of Tabor in southern Bohemia. After the death of Wenceslas, 150 they agreed in their demands, which they laid down in the four Prague articles in 1420. They demanded freedom of preaching, the giving of the laity's goblet, the poverty of the clergy and the punishment of mortal sins by world. Court. When King Sigmund could not grant these demands, they refused him recognition and began the war (Hustic wars, chalice wars). Sigmund's attempts to subdue the H. with the Pope's interference by the army of the cross remained unsuccessful. H. had excellent leaders, the knight Joh. Zizka of Trocnow, Prokop the Great and Prokop to the little ones. They won the most important victories at Zizkaberg near Prague (1420), at Deutsch-Brod (1422), at Aussig (1426) and at Mies (1427). When the cross army led by Cardi- nal Cesarini succumbed to H. Taus in 1431, negotiations began, which were conducted at the Council of Basel and in Prague. The result were the "compactates" (30 Nov. 1433). The use of the lay goblet was permitted, in accordance with the other demands the H. reached only small concessions. The Taborites refused to accept the compacts, but were defeated on 30 May 1434 at Lipan. On the Landtage in Iglau the compactats were confirmed (5 July 1436), and Signund was recognized as king of Bohemia. But it was not until 1485, after a long period of internal turmoil, that the majority of the Utraquists in Bohemia succumbed to luth. Influences; the minority became Catholic again in 1594. Remains of the Taborites continued to live in the communities of the → Bohemian brothers. L. Höfler: History writer of the Iustic movement in Bohemia, 3 Tle. (1s56-66); F. Palady: Original contributions to the history of the Hussite War 1419-36 (2 Bbe, 1872-74); F. v. Bezold: King Sigmund and the Imperial Wars against the H. (3 Vde, 18 72-77); I. Loferth: contribution to the story of the Houssite Movement (5 Tle. 1877-93); Nich Gaud: Kirchengeschichte Dentschland, vol.5 (2 Tle;TL.1,1911; Ycht: Der Oberlausiher Husitienkrieg (2 Bde. 1911-16); A. 21. 2, 3. Auf. 1929).