Pilsen
a town of Bohemia; in a W. of Prague.
There are numerous active industries, producing building materials, machinery, metal work, porcelain, neighborhood are mines of iron, alum, vitriol, coal, and sulphuric acid. the town is most widely known from acid.
But giving its name to a popular beer. The town was stormed by Zizka in the Hussite war and by Count Mansfeld in the Thirty Years' War (1618); it was Wallenstein's headquarters in 1633- 1634. Pop . about 87,500. spirits, liquors, leather, etc. In the