re-Catholicization of Bohemia

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The re-Catholicization of Bohemia was a 17th-century Habsburg-led campaign to restore Roman Catholic dominance in Bohemia through forced conversions, expulsions, and suppression of Protestantism following the Battle of White Mountain.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Counter-Reformation campaign
historical process
policy of the Habsburg Monarchy
religious persecution
aims elimination of Protestant confessions
restoration of Roman Catholic dominance
appliesTo Kingdom of Bohemia
chronology post-1620 Habsburg consolidation in Bohemia
country Bohemia
endTime around 1700
late 17th century
follows Battle of White Mountain
Bohemian Revolt
hasCause Habsburg victory at the Battle of White Mountain
desire to restore Catholic dominance
suppression of the Bohemian Estates
hasEffect confiscation of Protestant property
decline of Czech-speaking Protestant elite
emigration of Protestant nobles and burghers
establishment of Catholicism as the only tolerated religion in Bohemia
expulsion of non-Catholic clergy
forced conversions to Catholicism
increased Germanization of the Bohemian nobility
strengthening of Habsburg absolutism in Bohemia
suppression of Protestantism in Bohemia
location Bohemia
Habsburg Monarchy
Lands of the Bohemian Crown
linked to: Bohemian Crown
mainSubject Protestantism
Roman Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism
participant Bohemian Protestants
linked to: Czech Protestants

Czech nobility
Habsburg Monarchy
House of Habsburg
Jesuits
linked to: Society of Jesus

Roman Catholic clergy
partOf Counter-Reformation
religionImposed Roman Catholicism
religionSuppressed Calvinism
Lutheranism
Utraquism
significantEvent Battle of White Mountain
confiscations of Bohemian estates (1620s)
expulsion of non-Catholic preachers
startTime 1620
early 17th century
uses Catholic education and missionary work
confiscation of estates
expulsion of non-Catholics
forced conversion
legal repression

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Bohemian estates religiousOutcome re-Catholicization of Bohemia
Catholic Church in the Czech Republic associatedWith Counter-Reformation in Bohemia and Moravia
linked to: re-Catholicization of Bohemia
Slavata family religiousSphere Counter-Reformation in Bohemia
linked to: re-Catholicization of Bohemia