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May 12, 2024 · The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire. The Bohemian king was a prince-elector of the empire. The kings of Bohemia, besides the region of Bohemia itself, also ruled other lands belonging to the Bohemian Crown, which at various times included Moravia, Silesia, Lusatia, and parts of Saxony, Brandenburg, and Bavaria.
May 10, 2024 · Soon he was generally recognized as the only German king. His main concern, however, lay in the Bohemian lands—his Luxembourgian dynastic power—which provided his greatest source of strength. In 1347 Charles was crowned king of Bohemia by the new archbishop in Prague.
May 3, 2024 · Silesia, historical region that is now in southwestern Poland. Silesia was originally a Polish province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown in 1335, passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526, and was taken by Prussia in 1742. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Silesia.
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6 days ago · Defenestration of Prague, incident of Bohemian resistance to Habsburg authority that took place on May 23, 1618, preceding the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War. In 1617 Roman Catholic officials in Bohemia closed Protestant chapels that were being constructed by citizens of the towns of Broumov and Hrob, thus violating the guarantees of ...
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5 days ago · Published in 2016, the Bolzano-Gesamtbibliographie 1804–1999 represents the culmination of a continuous effort spanning almost 45 years to produce, first and foremost, the most comprehensive bibliography of Bolzano, but also an exceptionally valuable—because vast and elaborated—bibliography about him. As the editors themselves explain in ...
3 days ago · Lands of the Bohemian Crown between 1635 and 1742, before most of Silesia was ceded to Prussia. In 1742, most of Silesia was seized by King Frederick II of Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession, eventually becoming the Prussian Province of Silesia in 1815; consequently, Silesia became part of the German Empire when it was proclaimed in ...
2 days ago · The House of Habsburg ( / ˈhæpsbɜːrɡ /, German: Haus Habsburg, pronounced [haʊ̯s ˈhaːpsˌbʊʁk] ⓘ ), also known as the House of Austria, [note 6] is one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history. [3] [4]
