Tabor is a regional locality in

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in the Western District of

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named after

Tábor Tábor (; german: Tabor) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. Administrative parts The followi ...

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now part of the

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. A

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church was built at Tabor in 1861. This building no longer exists, having been replaced in 1884 by a new church of

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construction. This was in turn replaced by the current

church building in 1912. The "second" church was turned into a primary school around that time, Victorian School number 84. The school was closed and de-registered in the early 1990s. A Post Office opened around 1905 though known for some time as Croxton East R(ailway)S(tation). It closed in 1952. A cemetery is located in the grounds of the Tabor church precinct.

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