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Who succeeded Ottokar II as King of Bohemia?

  • Charles I

  • Rudolf I

  • Wenceslaus II

  • Henry II

Answer

Wenceslaus II, the only son of Ottokar II and Kunigunda of Slavonia, inherited the throne of Bohemia as his father's successor after his father's death at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278. His rule witnessed both territorial expansion through his military campaigns and the rise of Bohemia's cultural prestige, marked by the foundation of the University of Prague, Central Europe's first university, in 1348.
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