Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Resurrected Nations: Short Histories of the Peoples Freed By, the Great War and Statements of Their National Claims
The history of the Czechs goes back almost to the beginning of the Christian era. Nearly two thousand years ago their forefathers waged bit ter warfare against the Teutons. They established their supremacy after several centuries of struggle, and already in the seventh century Bo bemia emerges as a consolidated nation. Chris tianity was introduced into Moravia in the ninth century by two Greek missionaries, and was fol lowed by an expansion of the country resulting in the creation of a great State comprising Bo bemia proper, Moravia, Slovakia, part of Silesia and Galicia. Then came the Magyars. In 907 they overran Slovakia and Moravia, establishing themselves permanently in the former province. A war ensued which afforded an Opportunity to Boleslaw the Brave, of Poland, to place his brother on the Bohemian throne. The latter, in order to keep himself in power, invoked German aid and protection, opening a thousand-year struggle be tween the Czechs and Germans.
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