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In the Bohemian Kingdom, a national committee was formed that included Germans and Czechs.
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Bohemian and Kingdom
A Bohemian () is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic.
In 1041, Bretislaus, defeated in his second attempted invasion by Emperor Henry III signed a treaty at Regensburg ( 1042 ) in which he renounced his claims to all Polish lands except for Silesia, which was to be incorporated into the Bohemian Kingdom.
After the Dukes of Cieszyn had become vassals of the Bohemian kings in 1327 and the Duchy of Oświęcim was sold to the Polish Crown in 1457, the Biała River for centuries marked the border between the Bohemian crown land of Silesia within the Holy Roman Empire and the Lesser Polish region of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.
This, however, is not to be confused with a change in national affiliation ; Rybnik continued to be part of the Kingdom of Poland, until Silesia as a whole became a fiefdom of the Bohemian crown in 1327.
In 1367 the Brandenburg elector Otto V of Wittelsbach finally sold Lower Lusatia to Emperor and Bohemian King Charles IV and was incorporated into Kingdom of Bohemia.
Wings ' 1977 single " Mull of Kintyre "/" Girls School " is still the biggest-selling non-charity single in the United Kingdom ( although Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody " sold more, its sales include a reissue in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust ), and it ranked fourth in the official list of all-time best selling singles in the United Kingdom issued in 2002.
Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of ( chronologically ) Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1526.
The French hoped to draw the attention of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was allied with Britain and Hanover, away from the Bohemian theatre where Prussia and Austria fought several battles ( Lobositz, Prague, Kolin ).
* the Lands of the Bohemian Crown ( i. e. the Kingdom of Bohemia with the March of Moravia and the County of Kladsko, the Duchies of Silesia, as well as Upper and Lower Lusatia )
After the peace treaty of 1137, Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland ceded all claims to the land of Kłodzko to the Bohemian Principality ( later Kingdom ).
This, however, is not to be confused with a change in national affiliation ; Wodzisław continued to be part of the Kingdom of Poland, until Silesia as a whole became a fiefdom of the Bohemian crown in 1327.
Moreover, some Czechs were making political demands that included the reconstitution of an autonomous Bohemian Kingdom.
Some sources use the term to mean any territory under the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Lands of the Bohemian Crown.
In contrast, the Bohemian Kingdom had entrenched estates that were ready to defend what they considered their rights and liberties.
In 1622, Charles University was merged with the Jesuit Academy, and the entire education system of the Bohemian Kingdom was placed under Jesuit control.
Thus, little remained of an autonomous and distinct Bohemian Kingdom.
In 1648 the Treaty of Westphalia confirmed the incorporation of the Bohemian Kingdom into the Habsburg imperial system, which established its seat in Vienna.
The Bohemian Kingdom de facto lost its independence ( de jure only under Maria Theresa, see below ).
Influenced by the ideas of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers, Maria-Theresa and Joseph worked toward rational and efficient administration of the Bohemian Kingdom.
The Prussian king, Frederick II, joined by the dukes of Bavaria and Saxony, invaded the Bohemian Kingdom in 1741.
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.
What remained of the Bohemian Kingdom was now merged into the Austrian provinces of the Habsburg realm.
On the one hand, the policy of centralization whittled down further any vestiges of a separate Bohemian Kingdom and resulted in the Germanization of the imperial administration and nobility.
Bohemian and national
The founder of the Czech national music Bedřich Smetana was inspired by the Bohemian Forest while creating his symphonic poem Vltava.
Slovak and Upper-Sorabian languages ( national minority in Saxonia, part of Germany ) are quite similar to the Bohemian language and users of those three languages can understand each other without translation.
In a 2008 stand up comedy tour, Hills performed the Dutch national anthem Het Wilhelmus to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Josef Dobrovský ( August 17, 1753, Balassagyarmat, Hungary – January 6, 1829, Brno ) was a Bohemian philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech national revival.
Count Francis was the principal founder of the Society of the Bohemian Museum, devoted to the collection of documents bearing on Bohemian history, with the object of reawakening national sentiment by the study of the national records.
Lobkovic was an author of philosophical prose, letters, and verses, amongst them a satire on Bohemian national life Ad sanctum Venceslaum satira ( 1489 ).
The successor to the Bohemian national ice hockey team, which was a European power prior to World War I, the Czechoslovakian national team first appeared at the 1920 Summer Olympics, two years after the creation of the state.
See Bohemian national ice hockey team
* Bohemian national ice hockey team
The best known of these is the Český ráj (" Bohemian Paradise ") national park, which includes the Prachovské skály (" Prachov Peaks ") range of sandstone mountains ; the Kost Castle can also be visited here.
Bohemian and committee
The Bohemian Germans soon withdrew from the committee, signaling the Czech-German conflict that would characterize subsequent history.
They moved to a new home at Whitehall Farm, Glasnevin, in time for the start of the 1895 / 96 season but in those days, the area was out of the way and without public transport so the Bohemian committee continued to look for a new home ground.
However, in the end Nixon admits that he has been the willing tool of a political network he alternately calls " the Bohemian Grove " and " The committee of 100 ".
Bohemian and was
His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.
An accord was made between him and the Bohemian Duke Borivoj I ( reigned 870-95 ); Bohemia was thus freed from the dangers of invasion.
The word " Bohemian " was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word " Czech " became prevalent in English.
The word " Bohemian " was never used by the local Czech ( Slavic ) population.
In most other European vernaculars and in Latin ( as Bohemi ), the word " Bohemian " or a derivate was used.
If the Czech ethnic origin was to be stressed, combinations like " Bohemian of Bohemian language "( Čech českého jazyka ), " a real Bohemian " ( pravý Čech ) etc.
It was not until the 19th century that other European languages began to use the word " Czechs " ( in English – Tschechen in German, Tchèques in French ) in a deliberate ( and successful ) attempt to distinguish between Bohemian Slavs and other inhabitants of Bohemia ( mostly Germans ).
The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century.
The variant English name " Bohemian " was used until the late 19th century, reflecting the original English name of the Czech state derived from the Celtic tribe of Boii who inhabited the area since the 4th century BC.
The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.
940 / 45 – 977 ) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans.
The only indication is communicated by the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, who stated that the Bohemian princess at the time of her marriage with Mieszko I was an old woman.
The Polish ruler accepted, and only then was able to marry the Bohemian princess.
Husserl was born in 1859 in Prostějov (), a town in the Bohemian province of Moravia, that was then in the Austrian Empire, after 1918 in Czechoslovakia, and since 1993 in the Czech Republic.
Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).
David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".
His parents were Henry Kern ( 1842 – 1908 ), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles ( 1852 – 1907 ), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage.
In 1490 John was able to purchase the former Lusatian territory around Zossen, acknowledged by the Bohemian king Vladislaus II, and maintained the succession claims of the Hohenzollern dynasty to the Pomeranian lands held by the House of Griffins.
The Saint-Gobain factory, founded by royal initiative in France, was an important manufacturer, and Bohemian and German glass, often rather cheaper, was also important.
Still other motives were responsible according to Gallus Anonymus, who claimed that it was the Bohemian Princess Dobrawa who convinced her husband to change his religion.
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