• Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    At the risk of being ignorant, I truly have never heard anyone talk about the historical ingenuity and wealth of the Czechs, is this just cope about being part of some larger and actually celebrated empire?

    • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Bohemia was pretty well populated and urban compared to the rest of the region, I think.

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Prague was, for a very long time, spoken of in the same category as London and Paris. It used to be a very popular place for intellectuals and artists through the 19th century.

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I had the same reaction. Sure, they were part of the Holy Roman Empire, but I never got the impression they were a particularly influential part of it.