Gitschin, a town of Bohemia, on the Cyd-lina, 50 m. N. E. of Prague; pop. in 1869, 6,570. It is walled, and has three gates and four suburbs. The parish church is built after the model of that of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The former Jesuit college is used as barracks. It was a collection of wretched hovels before Wallenstein made it the capital of the duchy of Friedland in 1627, and the seat of a magnificent palace in 1630. The storming of Gitschin by the Prussians, June 29, 1860, ended the campaign in the territory of the Iser; and the overwhelming defeat of the Austrians here paved the way for the junction of the first and second Prussian armies and for the victory of Sadowa (July 3).