Описание:West Slavs nowadays. The Czech Republic. The Republic of Poland. The Slovak Republic. West Slavs in diasporas. West Slavs in the Middle ages. The Empire of Samo. The Principality of Moravia. The Principality of Nitra. Polabian Slavs. Sorbs. The Principality (>Kingdom) of Poland. The Principality (>Kingdom) of Bohemia. West Slavs and Germans in the Middle ages. Patron Saints of the West Slavs: Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph the Carpenter, Saint Vitus, Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, Saint Norbert, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Procopius of Sázava, Saint Adalbert of Prague (=Saint Vojtěch/Wojciech), Saint Wenceslaus, Saint Ludmila, Saint John of Nepomuk, Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Saint Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Saint Stanislaus Kostka, Saint Andrew Bobola. The Lands of the Bohemian Crown: the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchies of Silesia, the Upper and the Lower Lusatia, the “Bohemian Bavaria”. Emperor Charles IV as Pater Patriae. The first University east of Paris and north of the Alps. Emperor Sigismund – destructor or creator? The Western Schism and the Council of Constance. The Hussite Wars. Reformatio Sigismundi. Emperor Rudolf II as a patron of arts and sciences and as a ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years' War. Germans in the Czech lands (“We are not the Czechs, we are not the Germans, we are the Bohemians”). From the Principality of Nitra through the Kingdom of Hungary and Czechoslovakia to modern Slovakia. The Kingdom of Poland. Szlachta culture and Sarmatianism. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Mindaugas the King of Lithuania. The Gediminids. The Teutonic Knights. The Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars. The Union of Lublin. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Non-hereditary royal succession. Religious tolerance to nobility and free persons. Officially recognized languages: Polish, Latin, Chancellery Ruthenian, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Armenian. West Slavs in the Holy Roman Empire (>Austro-Hungarian Empire), in the German Empire and in the Russian Empire. West Slavs in the World Wars.