Charles makes Prague into an imperial city.…

1252 CE to 1395 CE

Charles makes Prague into an imperial city.

Extensive building projects undertaken by the king include the founding of the New Town southeast of the old city.

The royal castle, Hradcany, is rebuilt.

Of particular significance is the founding of Charles University in Prague in 1348.

Charles's intention is to make Prague into an international center of learning, and the university is divided into Czech, Polish, Saxon, and Bavarian "nations," each with one controlling vote.

Charles University, however, will become the nucleus of intense Czech particularism.

Charles dies in 1378, and the Bohemian crown goes to his son, Wenceslas IV.

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Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic View →

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Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor View → Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia View →

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Germans View → Saxons View → Bavarians (West Germanic tribe) View → Lusatia, Margraviate of View → Germany, Kingdom of (within the Holy Roman Empire) View → Luxembourg, County of View → Poles (West Slavs) View → Slovaks (West Slavs) View → Carinthia, Duchy of View → Czechs [formerly Bohemians] (West Slavs) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Silesia, Duchy of View → Moravian Margravate View → Bohemia, Kingdom of View → Holy Roman Empire View →

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