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widespread. The movement split over its relationship with the secular authorit-
ies, with the moderate Utraquists siding in 1434 with the Catholic Sigismund.
The more radical Taborites, seeing themselves as God's warriors, fought the
Catholics in every way. As the military base for the Hussites, Tábor - named
after the biblical Mt Tabor - was successfully defended by a mainly peasant
army under the brilliant Jan Žižka and Prokop Holý.
The movement also attracted supporters from other Protestant sects in
Europe. Many converged on Tábor and the groups joined against the crusading
armies of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hussite ideals were never fully extinguished in Bohemia. Although the Utra-
quists became the dominant force after defeating (with the help of Sigismund's
Catholic forces) the Taborites at the Battle of Lipany in 1434, the resultant peace
guaranteed religious freedom for the movement. It took almost 200 years before
Protestantism was fully suppressed in the Czech lands by the Catholic Habs-
burg rulers following the Battle of White Mountain, near Prague, in 1620.
