Zákupy (ˈzaːkupɪ; , originally Richinstat) is a town in the Česká Lípa District

Ceská Lípa District

Česká Lípa District is a district within the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic...

, Liberec Region

Liberec Region

Liberec Region is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia. Region borders with Saxony, and Poland...

 of the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. The number of inhabitants is 2,642.

History

The earliest preserved document where the city appears is from 1306.

In 1818 Napoleon II

Napoleon II of France

Napoléon II , after 1818 known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, was the son of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria...

, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon I of France

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, was awarded the title Duke of Reichstadt by his grandfather Franz I

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

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 of Austria

Austrian Empire

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. Russia's Chancellor Alexander Gorchakov and Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph I reached the Reichstadt Agreement

Reichstadt Agreement

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 on partition of the Balkans

Balkans

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 at the local castle in 1876. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

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 and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

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were married there in 1900.