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DIFFICULTY 68 · HARDHISTORY
Scutum, the Shield, was named in honour of which monarch's victory at the 1683 Battle of Vienna?
- Charles II of England
- Leopold I of Austria
- John III Sobieski of Poland
- Louis XIV of France
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C. John III Sobieski of Poland
Hevelius named it Scutum Sobiescianum, Sobieski's Shield, in 1684 to honour John III Sobieski of Poland, whose army broke the Ottoman siege of Vienna the previous year.
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