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Nov 19, 2021 · Foreign captives in the Czech duchy are for the last time mentioned in 1176 when the duke Soběslav dragged from his raid to Austria ‘a number of people of both sexes and turned them into servants (in famulos et famulas)’ (FRB II: 471). Perhaps the latest evidence of slavery is contained in the laws of Duke Conrad from 1189.
Mar 15, 2021 · The German occupation of what is now the Czech Republic began 82 years ago on March 15, 1939, one day after a German-backed puppet state was established in a newly independent Slovakia. The move came barely five months after the Munich Agreement, signed Sept. 30, 1938. The agreement called for Czechoslovakia to give up control of its border ...
Drahomíra. Boleslaus I ( Czech: Boleslav I. Ukrutný; 915–972), a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was ruler ( kníže, "prince") of the Duchy of Bohemia from 935 until his death in 972. He is notorious for the murder of his elder brother Wenceslaus, through which he became duke. Despite his complicity in this fratricide, Boleslaus is ...
Jun 18, 2020 · Image credit: Kojin/Shutterstock.com. Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on December 31, 1992, and split into two new countries: Slovakia and the Czech Republic. As World War II ended, Soviet troops came in and took control of much of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. Cracks began to surface as Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party began falling apart ...
By order of the Führer and Supreme Commander of the German Wehrmacht. I have taken over, as of today, the executive power in the Province of Bohemia. Headquarters, Prague, 15 March 1939. Commander, 3rd Army, Blaskowitz, General of infantry." The Czech translation includes numerous grammatical errors (possibly intentionally, as a form of disdain).
The best-known representative of the Bohemian Reformation is Jan Hus. He was an influential university teacher and a popular preacher in Bethlehem Chapel in the Old Town of Prague. The chapel was founded already in 1391 in the spirit of the nascent Bohemian Reformation. It was intended solely for sermons in Czech and it could admit 3,000 people.
Mar 24, 2021 · Since 1526, the history of the Kingdom of Bohemia became closely connected to that of the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire. This painting shows the coronation of the only queen of the Austrian Empire, Maria Theresa in 1741. She went on to become a Holy Roman Empress.
