Prague(praha)
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
argue the case - especially in the USA with President Wilson - for the Czechs' and Slovaks'
long-cherished dream of independence. Wilson's interest was in keeping with his own goal of
closer ties with Europe under the aegis of the League of Nations (the unsuccessful precursor
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