![]() By the end of the 19th century, the facility was obsolete as a fort in the 20th century, the fort was used to accommodate military and political prisoners.įrom 1914 until 1918, Gavrilo Princip was imprisoned here, after his conviction for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife on June 28, 1914, a catalyst for World War I. Terezín was named for the mother of the emperor, Maria Theresa of Austria, who reigned as archduchess of Austria in her own right from 1740–1780. It was designed as part of a projected but never fully realized fort system of the monarchy, another piece being the fort of Josefov. The fortress of Terezín in the north-west region of Bohemia was constructed between the years 17 on the orders of the Austrian emperor Joseph II. ![]() 15 Notable prisoners who died at the camp. ![]()
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