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English: Liberec is a city in the Czech Republic. Located on the Lusatian Neisse and surrounded by the Jizera Mountains and Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge, it is the fifth-largest city in the Czech Republic.

Liberec was first mentioned in a document of 1348 and from 1622 to 1634 was among the possessions of Albrecht von Wallenstein. After his death it belonged to the Gallas and Clam Gallas families. The cloth-making industry was introduced in 1579. The prosperous local industry was interrupted by the Thirty Years' War and a great plague in the 1680s. The Battle of Reichenberg between the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria) and the Kingdom of Prussia occurred nearby in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. Until 1918 the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austrian side after the compromise of 1867), seat of the Reichenberg district, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Bohemia.

At one time the second city of Bohemia, the city developed rapidly at the end of the nineteenth century and as a result has a spectacular collection of late-nineteenth-century buildings; the Town Hall, the Opera House (Divadlo Františka Xavera Šaldy) and the Severočeské Muzeum (North Bohemian Museum) are of note.
The Scotch Mist Gallery contains many photographs of historic buildings, monuments and memorials of Poland and beyond.