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 | | The only native ruling house in Bohemia, the Premyslid dynasty (a contemporary of the Piast dynasty), provided a King of Poland towards the end of the troubled 13th Century in what was a complex, but interesting, climax to their struggle for power in East Central Europe. |
 | | He was more concerned in strengthening his own dynasty centred on Hungary and as a result had become involved in a long struggle with Venice for the control of the Adriatic (in three wars; 1342 - 46, 1357 - 58, and 1378 - 81), succeeding in 1381. |
 | | The constant raids of the Moldavians and Tartars were to eventually result in the ravishing of Ruthenia and the Ukraine, the annihilation of flourishing settlements and a virtual end to the Polonisation of the area which was to become known as the Wild Plains. |
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