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Hussite Wars

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hussite Wars series of conflicts in the 15th cent., caused by the rise of the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia. It was a religious struggle between Hussites and the Roman Catholic Church, a national struggle between Czechs and Germans, and a social struggle between the landed and peasant classes. On the death (1419) of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (see Wenceslaus , emperor), the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia took up arms to prevent his brother—their archenemy, Emperor Sigismund —from entering into his succession. John Zizka , the Hussite military leader, expelled Sigismund... Read more

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Hussites Bohemian and Moravian followers of the 15th-century religious...reformer Jan Hus . The execution of Hus in 1415 provoked the Hussite Wars against Emperor Sigismund . The Council of Basel (1431) brought peace, but the Taborites, the radical wing of the Hussites, rejected the terms. Sigismund ... Read more

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...Jerome of Prague (1416), the Hussites continued as a powerful group...it ultimately failed, the Hussite movement is of permanent...the Taborites In 1419 the Hussite Wars began, and in their course the Hussite movement splintered into...saints and holy images. The Hussite Wars ... Read more

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	Ancient rivalries still plague Middle Europe ; ...small principalities, fierce loyalties and a long history of wars and persecutions. In almost every street and square of the...matters, managed to get on the wrong side of the religious wars and has little hold on the people of this nominally Catholic...of Bohemia. Mind you, from the perspective of history, the ... Read more
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	(book review) ; ...entirely sure is East or West. It has been the trophy of countless wars, fought over since the beginning of recorded time and the endless...Stalin's Red Army, Poland again. In religion, it has been Catholic, Hussite, Lutheran and, latterly, Catholic again. For centuries it had... Read more
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