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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Czech Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Of all Slav literature, with the exception of the Bulgarian, the Czech is the oldest and, until the seventeenth century, was also the richest.
This rebellion was overthrown at the battle of the White Mountain, 8 Nov., 1620, and the Bohemian nation by the foolhardiness and stubbornness of its nobles was shorn of its independence.
Of all the branches of scientific Bohemian literature the theological is the richest.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04598b.htm   (2104 words)

  
 Russian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meletius Smotrytsky presented the Cyrillic alphabet in this 1619 publication describing the "Slavonic" language.
The official language remained a kind of Church Slavonic until the close of the seventeenth century, but, despite attempts at standardization, as by Meletius Smotrytsky c. 1620, its purity was by then strongly compromised by an incipient secular literature.
The political reforms of Peter the Great were accompanied by a reform of the alphabet, and achieved their goal of secularization and Westernization.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_language   (3343 words)

  
 Rene Descartes - Free Online Library
Descartes studied classical literature, history, rhetoric, and natural philosophy.
In 1619 he served in the Bavarian army.
From 1619 to 1627 Descartes lived in Paris.
descartes.thefreelibrary.com   (1335 words)

  
 Indonesia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Indonesia
However, it was the Dutch who eventually won the lion's share of influence in what was to become the Netherlands East Indies.
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