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  Czech lands: 1648-1867 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although Maria-Theresa regained most of the Bohemian Kingdom and was crowned queen in Prague in 1743, all of the highly industrialized territory of Silesia except for Tesin, Opava, and Krnov was ceded to Prussia.
In 1804 Francis II transferred his imperial title to the Austrian domains (Austria, Bohemian Kingdom, Hungary, Galicia, and parts of Italy), and two years later the Holy Roman Empire was formally dissolved.
The Czech revival acquired an institutional foundation with the establishment of the Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom (1818) as a center for Czech scholarship.
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 Czech Republic - Bohemian Kingdom
The Bohemian Kingdom was a major medieval and early modern political, economic, and cultural entity and subsequently was viewed by many Czechs as one of the brightest periods of Czech history.
The Bohemian Kingdom emerged in the tenth century when the Premyslid chiefs--members of the Cechove, a tribe from which the Czechs derive their name--unified neighboring Czech tribes and established a form of centralized rule.
The Bohemian Kingdom ceased to be a fief of the emperor.
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 PRAGUE - LoveToKnow Article on PRAGUE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Prag; Bohemian Praha),~the ancient capital of the Bohemian kingdom, residence of an archbishop and an Imperial governor, and the meeting-place of the Bohemian Diet.
The Bohemian nobles in alliance with the citizens of the old town attacked and conquered the new town, which for a time lost its privileges and became subject to the old town.
When the antagonism between the Romanist dynasty and the Bohemian Protestants culminated in the troubles of 1546 and 1547 and the Bohemians, after a weak and unsuccessful attempt to assert their liberties, were obliged to submit unconditionally to the house of Habsburg, Prague was deprived of many of its liberties and privileges.
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 Bohemian glassworks - Bohemian glass. Read more about those outstanding products.
Archaelogical findings of the bohemian glass from that period are mainly of smaller dimensions, and the hollow glassware has been shaped mainly in a form of cups, with rich decoration of glass knobs.
Bohemian glass from this period has slightly greenish colour with bubbles and impurities frozen in a mass of glass and is often decorated by the cobalt blue glass threads or small drops.
Thus bohemian glass flute is easily imaginable being filled with wine on the table of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Charles the Fourth, which has moved its capital to the biggest and most beautiful city of Bohemian kingdom, Prague.
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 BOHEMIA - LoveToKnow Article on BOHEMIA
The Bohemian army refused to cross the Saxon frontier, and towards the end of the year 1546 Ferdinand was obliged to disband his Bohemian forces.
The Bohemians were defeated after a struggle of only a few hours, and on the evening of battle the imperialists already occupied the port of Prague, situated on the left bank of the Vltava (Moldau).
The new constitution proclaimed the heredity of the Bohemian crown in the house of Habsburg.
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 Chapter 2
The Bohemian Kingdom was cut off from Byzantium by the Magyar presence and existed in the shadow of the Holy Roman Empire.
In this manner, the Bohemian Kingdom became a fief of the Holy Roman Em­pire, and its king one of the seven secular electors of the emperor.
He promised the Czechs a separate Constitutional Assembly, a widening of the electorate, the recon­stitution of the supreme offices of the Bohemian Kingdom in Prague, and the recognition of Czech as an official language of equal standing with German.
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 learningstore.ca - Bohemian Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Bohemian Kingdom was a major medieval and earl...
Bohemian Kingdom or Bohemia are common names for Lands of Bohemian Crown, country founded in centre of Europe in early 7th century and still existing under the newer name Czech Republic.
Name 'Bohemian Kingdom' was used before 1918, after this year monarchic rule was changed for republican.
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 Bohemian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Because of complex dynastic arrangements, Moravia's link with the Bohemian Kingdom between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries was occasionally severed; during such interludes Moravia was subordinated directly to the Holy Roman Empire or to Hungary.
The Bohemian estates decided to levy an army, decreed the expulsion of the Jesuits, and proclaimed the Bohemian throne to be elective.
Bohemians fought on all sides: most of the rebellious Czech generals joined Protestant armies; Albrecht of Wallenstein was the most prominent Czech defector to the imperial cause.
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 Bohemian Confession --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The document was based on the Augsburg Confession, and it upheld the Lutheran position on justification and the Calvinist interpretation of the Eucharist.
He made substantial concessions to the Bohemian magnates and was elected king in October 1526; the coronation took place in February 1527.
(1787–1869), Bohemian physiologist; professor of physiology at Breslau and Prague; established physiological laboratory at Breslau 1824, which was the beginning of laboratory training in German universities; recognized importance of fingerprints 1823; discovered sweat glands of the skin 1833; discovered the ganglionic cells (Purkinje cells) in cerebellum 1837; pioneer in...
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 Czech history The Luxembourgs dynasti 1310 - 1378
The freeing of the throne nearly always brought along with it the danger of destabilization: nor was it otherwise in the Bohemian Kingdom.
The relation of the Kingdom of Bohemia to the Holy Roman Empire was plainly fixed by Charles in the Golden Bulla for the Empire of 1356.
In the year 1380, the Kingdom of Bohemia was besieged by a strong epidemic of the Plague which raged throughout most of Europe during 1347-1352.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind and an atmosphere.
Bohemian Manifesto is the first book to distil and categorise all the ingredients of Bohemian life.
A lively and witty overview of the Bohemian lifestyle glorifies the creativity, originality, and spirit exemplified by free-thinking and free-living intellectuals, artists, poets, musicians, and writers, categorizing the diverse ingredients of the Bohemian life, including the contents of a Bohemian's closet, bathroom, and bookshelf.
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 Slovakia Historical Setting - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
For over two centuries the Czechs were able to maintain political self-rule, which was expressed by the Bohemian estates (an assembly of nobles, clergy, and townspeople representing the major social groups in the Bohemian Kingdom) and the Czech Reformed Church.
The Bohemian estates resisted, but their defeat by the Hapsburgs at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 had dire consequences: the entire Czech leadership was either killed or went into exile, the reformed Czech religion was gradually eliminated, and even the Czech language went into decline.
After incorporation into the Kingdom of Hungary in the tenth century, the Slovaks were reduced to being serfs of their Hungarian overlords.
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The Kingdom of Bohemia then became the centre of the Holy Roman Empire under King Charles IV (Karel IV), who became emperor, and his son Wenceslas IV (Václav IV).
Charles IV encouraged the development of the Bohemian Lands as a centre of education, architecture and the arts, and Prague became one of the largest European cities of the time.
The defeat of the revolt at the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620 inaugurated 300 years in which the Bohemian Kingdom was ruled from Vienna.
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Although the Bohemian Kingdom, the Margravate of Moravia, and Slovakia were all under Habsburg rule, they followed different paths of development.
The defeat at Mohacs in 1526 meant that most of Hungary proper was taken by the Turks; until Hungary's reconquest by the Habsburgs in the second half of the seventeenth century, Slovakia became the center of Hungarian political, cultural, and economic life.
The conference approved the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, to encompass the historic Bohemian Kingdom (including Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia), Slovakia, and Ruthenia.
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 Czech Republic - Consequences of Czech Defeat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Czech defeat at the Battle of White Mountain was followed by measures that effectively secured Hapsburg authority and the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church.
The legislative function of the diets of both Bohemia and Moravia was revoked; all subsequent legislation was to be by royal decree, receiving only formal approval from the diets.
In 1648 the Treaty of Westphalia confirmed the incorporation of the Bohemian Kingdom into the Hapsburg imperial system, which established its seat in Vienna (see fig.
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 The Kingdom of Bohemia
However, they have also supervised the migration of Germans into the kingdom, and as a result, the climate is not secure.
Each Bohemian king since this time has honored this tradition, and despite is independent status, Bohemia is now considered part of the Holy Roman Empire.
The current Bohemian King, Premysl Otakar (1197-1230), invited German colonists to settle the land (including that of his brother Vladislav, the Margrave of Moravia), since they are known for their adept mining skills.
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 History of the Czech Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Przemysloid Dynasty started with the unification of Bohemian tribes, which led into the foundation of the Bohemian Principality in 995, when Boleslav II effaced the concurrent Slavnikoid Dynasty.
In 1212 the Przemysloid Dynasty (King Przemysl Otakar I) received the hereditary tile "king" and Bohemia became the Bohemian Kingdom.
The greatest territorial range was reached in 13-th century in the times of rule of King Przemysl Otakar II, when the Kingdom's borders reached the Baltic and Adriatic seas.
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 COMPSTAT 2004 : International Conference on Computational Statistics, Prague August 23-27, 2004
At that time the Bohemian State was the strongest power on which Charles could rely as political core of his territories, and from which he could control the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Founding Charter of the 7th of April 1348 referred to the territorial principle by mentioning the inhabitants, of the Bohemian kingdom, for whom the privileges of a studium generale were principally destined.
This led to the departure of a large proportion of the foreign scholars and to increasing emphasis on the territorial character of Prague's university.
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 interwar period
Finally, the Bohemian Kingdom proved to cause the most trouble for the Hapsburgs, as they were ready to fight for their liberties.
The conflict between the Bohemians and the Hapsburg rule was laced with ethnic and religious differences and the struggle for the preservation of Czech institutions.
Czechoslovak nationalism slowly began to spur and found an institutional foundation with the creation of the Museum of the Bohemian Kingdom in 1818.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - Royal Court of Bohemia
Led by Jan Rohac z Dube, the nobles elected Ladislav, great-grandson of Charles IV and son of the Luxemburg Countess of Görlitz and the Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria-Straubing.
The greater part of the Estates, assembled in Praha or wherever else inside the bounds of the kingdom, must vote without coercion or subornment to consent to the expension of the state coffers when the august members are called upon individually in order of precedence by the presider of the Estates.
The kingdom of Aragón beckoned, though falsely, like the siren to John, for despite its belligerent and crimson glorioes, it too remained too close and too friendly to those of Normandie, his adopted him.
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 A Brief History of the Czech Lands
Bohemia began to receive Christianity by the 9th century, when fourteen Bohemian princes were baptised at Regensburg, while according to legend an early Přemyslid prince Bořivoj was christened by Methodius, founding the first Bohemian church at Levý Hradec, and later another at Prague Castle.
Soon after this 2nd Defenestration Matthias died, his nephew Ferdinand 11 was rejected by the Bohemian estates, and Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate (son-in-law of James I of England) was crowned in his stead.
She and her son Joseph II brought in a number of modernising and centralising administrative reforms, aiming to create a closer union of the Bohemian crown lands with the Alpine provinces.
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 Jetstream of Worldtravelcenter.com
The Czech Republic has evolved from the Bohemian Kingdom, which was one of the wealthiest parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Czech kings were legally not subordinated to the Roman Emperors, and the Czech nobility had the right to elect its king.
This castle was built in the 1350s by Charles IV, a Czech King and a Holy Roman Emperor, to guard the coronation jewels of the kingdom.
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 The New Forces of the Fourteenth Century
He preferred to play the part of a knight errant, abandoning the affairs of the kingdom to the nobles, until in 1333 his son Charles was associated with the government, and long before John’s death at the Battle of Crécy in 1346, he exercised a decisive influence.
The king s marriage to Elizabeth of Poland, the highly intelligent and ambitious daughter of Wladyslaw Lokietek, which was contracted in 1320, the very year of the latter s coronation, was accompanied by a close alliance which was to last throughout the whole Anjou period.
The kingdom of the Nemanyids was divided among the last members of the dynasty, who proved of much less prominence, and local chieftains, among which the Balshas in the Zeta region—the future Montenegro—were most important and most interested in relations with the Catholic West.
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 images
Leading an artistic and architectural makeover of unprecedented proportions, a host of painters, sculptors and craftsmen transformed the Czech kingdom in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Though scholars of the Bohemian baroque would certainly acknowledge that the artistic activity of their period was a product of the new religious climate, they have often failed to integrate their work into a broader historical narrative.
So it was in Bohemia, and in the wake of both the image-breakers and the devastation of war, image-makers, the kingdom’s painters, sculptors and architects would assume an importance new to their traditional station.
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 Welcome to Homebrew.com
This ancient European city is located in the western half of the (now) Czech Republic which was, at one point, part of the Bohemian kingdom ruled by King Wenceslas II in the 13th century.
The formation of this particular brewery came for the demand for better quality beer, which had been slowly deteriorating due to the lack of understanding of the fermentation process and sanitation conditions that affect beer.
The land of Plzen was, and still is, rich in brewing resources, from Bohemian and Moravian malts to the renown Saaz hops (Zatec Red, being its ancient name).
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 notes from a truth-seeker » 2004 » July » 22
Or in Christianese, God needs humanity to support his kingdom activity in creation.
He did so so flawlessly that he was completely integrated with who he was created to be–the perfect example of wholeness, the embodiment of the Bohemian ideal.
Not a pawn to be sacrificed then, but the ultimate example of someone living in perfect alignment with who they were individually created to be.
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 Outline 7
Bohemian Kingdom part of the Holy Roman Empire: close association with the Western Church, HRE, and with Germans—long-lasting.
The remaining Bohemian students more in agreement with Hus and reformers.
among the Hussites, the authority divided between military commanders of the Taborite armies, the Bohemian Diet (controlled by nobles) and the Hussite Church (governed by a consistory of priests and university teachers)
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 pemis ksichtni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
From prehistory to Celts - the oldest history of Bohemian territory (till I. century EC)
Kingdom of Bohemian Crown Lands - Luxembourg kings (XIV.
Bohemian Way II - building of future (XIX.
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 The secrets of St. Wenceslas' crown - 09-07-2003 - Radio Prague
On the first Sunday before the feast of the Birth of Blessed Virgin Mary on September 2nd, together with his wife, Lady Blanche (de Valois), venerable Arnost, the first archbishop of Prague, merrily and festively crowned him king, and her queen of the Bohemian Kingdom.
On that day the nobility of the Bohemian Kingdom arrived, each of them according to his position, and they came on their steeds to offer their ritual rights to the new Czech king, and listened, as it was the habit, at the table.
He imposed regulations saying that together with other Bohemian coronation jewels, the crown might be used only in the coronation of Bohemian kings, and displayed to mark extraordinary occasions.
www.radio.cz /en/issue/42764   (1171 words)

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