Prague(praha)
the eastern part of the Czech Republic) were ultimately undone by internal conflicts,
especially with the Czechs, who finally broke away from the empire.
Prague Castle (Prazsk hrad, or just hrad to the Czechs) was built in the 870s by Prince
Boivoj as the main seat of the Pemysl dynasty. Vysehrad sometimes served as an alternative
in the 10th and 11th centuries.
Christianity became the state religion under the rule of the pious Wenceslas (Václav in
Czech), duke of Bohemia (r c 925-29), now the chief patron saint of the Czech people.
Wenceslas was the 'Good King Wenceslas' of the well-known Christmas carol written in 1853
by English clergyman John Mason Neale. Neale, a scholar of eastern European church
history, had read about St Wenceslas' legendary piety, and based his carol on the story of the
duke's page finding strength and warmth by following in the footsteps of his master as they
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