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2 days ago · Also called Czech Statehood Day, Wenceslas was born near Prague in 907 to the Duke of Bohemia. When his father died he was only 15 years old. His main contributions were to unify Bohemia and support the Christian church. Supporting the Church made him enemies in his family and he was eventually killed by supporters of his brother Boleslav.
5 days ago · He was actually a duke and was given the title of “king” posthumously by Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. Wenceslaus was born less than a hundred years after Saints Cyril and Methodius first brought Christianity to Bohemia and the Slavic lands. His father, Duke Wratislaw, was Catholic while his mother Princess Dragomir, was a practicing pagan.
5 days ago · Congress of Vienna, assembly in 1814–15 that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. It began in September 1814, five months after Napoleon I ’s first abdication and completed its “Final Act” in June 1815, shortly before the Waterloo campaign and the final defeat of Napoleon. The settlement was the most-comprehensive treaty that ...
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4 days ago · The International Community's Response to the Yugoslav Crisis: 1989-1995. Matjaž Klemencic is Professor of History at the University of Maribor and President of the Board of Advisors at the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He spoke at an EES Noon Discussion on January 11, 2006. The following is a summary of his presentation.
1 day ago · European territory inhabited by West Slavs and East Slavs circa 700–850 AD.. The White Croats (Croatian: Bijeli Hrvati; Polish: Biali Chorwaci; Czech: Bílí Chorvati; Ukrainian: Білі хорвати, romanized: Bili khorvaty), also known simply as Croats, were a group of Early Slavic tribes that lived between East Slavic and West Slavic tribes in the historical region of Galicia north of ...
5 days ago · On the eve of World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the territory that today comprises Czechia, and Slovakia became an independent state allied with Germany. After the war, a reunited but truncated Czechoslovakia (less Ruthenia) fell within the Soviet sphere of influence when the pro-Soviet Communist party staged a coup in February 1948.
5 days ago · A court in Moscow ruled that investigators acted lawfully when they refused to look into two alleged attempts on the life of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza in 2015 and 2017. Kara-Murza, a dual ...
