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History's Greatest Cities

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The Golden Age of the University of Prague

In 1419, a priest named Jan Jalevsky threw some city counselors out of the windows of the new town hall in the first Defenestration of Prague. This kind of marks the time when the Hussite peasant rebels kind of kick off. And there is the first ever large scale kind of Protestant religious movement in Europe.

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