The Hussite Wars were a series of crusades in the Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech Republic) against religious dissidents, prepared to go to war against the Catholic Church to protect their religious freedoms
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Hussite Wars 1419-1434, Early Bohemia
Hussite Wars 1419-1434, Early Bohemia
Early history of Bohemia (approx modern day Czech Republic), the Golden Age of Prague under Emperor Charles IV, and execution of Jan Hus for alleged heresy, which triggered the Hussite Wars. Pictured: Charles Bridge in Prague