From around 500 BC the Celtic tribe known as the Boii were the first inhabitants of this region known by name. The Boii gave their name to the region of Bohemia and the river Vltava. The Germanic tribe Marcomanni migrated to Bohemia with its king, Maroboduus, in AD 9.

Wenceslaus IV (also Wenceslas; Czech: Václav; German: Wenzel, nicknamed "the Idle"; [1] 26 February 1361 – 16 August 1419), also known as Wenceslaus of Luxembourg, was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he was deposed in 1400.

Prague is home to a number of cultural attractions including Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square with the Prague astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petřín hill and Vyšehrad. Since 1992, the historic center of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of …

Feb 1, 2014 · When first described by an envoy of the caliph of Córdoba in the tenth century, Prague was already a town at a crossroads, bustling with international merchants trading tin, fur, currency, and slaves.

Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437, the companion to a landmark exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrates the remarkable flowering of art that took place in Prague as the city emerged as a European cultural capital.

Apr 7, 2025 · By the 14th century Prague had become a major central European city, with the Czech money minted at nearby Kutná Hora serving as the hard currency of the entire region. Foreign merchants, notably Germans and Italians, became economically and politically powerful in uneasy alliance with the kings.

The history of Prague is an epic story. The city has witnessed independence, Nazi control, communism and capitalist democracy, and that is just the 20th century! Here we list significant events dating back to the times of the roaming Germanic and Celtic tribes.

In the article I visually present this moment of radically changed rhythm and order at the end of the fourteenth century in Prague and compare it to musical developments at that time. In this contribution I focus on the relationship between rhythm, architecture, and …

This chapter attempts to shed some light on the cultural and artistic activity in the crown lands of Bohemia in the second half of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries, by...

Created within the framework established at Chartres in 1194, Rayonnant represented first and foremost a refinement of High Gothic, the development of a very light skeletal structure with...