Prague(praha)
defeated in the same year at the Battle of Lipany.
Following Sigismund's death, George of Podbrady (Jií z Podbrad) ruled as Bohemia's one
and only Hussite king, from 1452 to 1471, with the backing of Utraquist forces. He was
centuries ahead of his time in suggesting a European council to solve international problems
by diplomacy rather than war, but he couldn't convince the major European rulers or the pope.
After George's death two weak kings from the Polish Jagiellonian dynasty ruled Bohemia,
though real power lay with the Utraquist nobles, the so-called Bohemian Estates.
INDEPENDENCE
Czechs had no interest in fighting for their Austrian masters in WWI, and neighbouring
Slovaks felt the same about their Hungarian rulers. Many defected to renegade legions
fighting against the Germans and Austrians.
Meanwhile Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, Edvard Benes and the Slovak Milan Stefánik began to
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