Strahov Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries of the Order of Premonstratensian Monks. It was founded in 1140-1143 by Vladislav II on the initiative of the Bishop of Olomouc Jindř ich Zdik. The name of the monastery has its roots in the word "guard", as it was in this place that the outpost was located, which guarded the approaches to the Prague Castle. Proximity to the center of Prague led to his participation in almost all historical events in medieval Prague: the Hussite Wars, the Thirty Years' War, the shelling and destruction of the monastery by French troops who dug in the monastery garden in 1742, the storming of Prague by the Prussian army.→
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