1) Hussite Wars. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Hussite Wars, series of conflicts in the 15th cent., caused by the rise of the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia. It was a religious struggle between Hussites and the...
2) Hussite. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...John Huss or his religious theories. Hussitism -NOUN...
3) Procopius the Great. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Procopius the Great, Czech Prokop Holy, d. 1434, Czech Hussite leader. A priest, he joined the Hussite movement (see Hussites) and distinguished himself as a captain...
4) Zizka, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., Czech Jan Zizka (yan zhesh´ka) (KEY) , d. 1424, Bohemian military leader and head of the Hussite forces during the anti-Hussite crusades of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund....
5) Hussites. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Hussites, (hus´its) (KEY) , followers of John Huss. After the burning of Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416), the Hussites continued as a powerful group in Bohemia...
6) Praguerie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(KEY) , 1440, revolt against King Charles VII of France, so called in allusion to the Hussite uprising in Prague. It was led by several great feudal lords, including...
7) Slovak literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...documents written in the Slovak language date from the 15th cent. Following the Czech Hussite movement, many Czech cultural leaders emigrated to Slovakia (16th cent.);...
8) Moravian. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...spoken in Moravia. 3. A member of a Protestant denomination founded in Saxony in 1722 by Hussite emigrants from Moravia. 1. Of or relating to Moravia or its people,...
9) 1458-71. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...(d. 1460) and, like the Taborites, rejecting all subordination to Rome. George, an avowed Hussite of the moderate school, was technically a heretic and soon found...
10) Prague. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Catholic archbishop, an Eastern Orthodox archbishop, and the archbishop of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Educational and cultural facilities in the city include...
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