Prague(praha)
Otakar bestowed royal privileges on the Staré Msto (Old Town), and Malá Strana (Little
Quarter) was established in 1257 by Otakar II.
Pemysl lands stretched at one point from modern-day Silesia (a region on the Czech-Polish
border) to the Mediterranean Sea. Their Austrian and Slovenian domains, however, were lost
when Otakar II died and his army was thrashed at the 1278 Battle of Moravské Pole (fought
near modern-day Dürnkrut in Austria) by the Austrian Habsburgs.
Hussite revolution
The late 14th and early 15th centuries witnessed the Church-reform movement led by Jan
Hus. Hus' eventual conviction for heresy and his death at the stake in 1415 sparked a
nationalist rebellion in Bohemia led by the Hussite preacher Jan Zelivsk. In 1419 several
Catholic councillors were flung from the windows of Prague's New Town Hall by Zelivsk's
followers, thus introducing the word 'defenestration' (the act of throwing someone or
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