urban law

The article examines the early history of the Bohemian city of Hradec Kralove, traces the origins of its medieval development, and identifies the features of the historical path traversed by the city in the 13th – 14th centuries. The causes and consequences of the transformation of Hradec Kralove into the residence of the dowager queens of the Bohemia are determined.

The article examines the early history of one of the largest historical cities of the Czech Republic – Pilsen. It is shown that the city went through two stages in its development: initially it was one of the most important regional towns of the medieval Bohemian state, and in 1295, in the immediate vicinity of the old settlement, a royal city was founded, endowed with self-government rights and other privileges on the basis of city law, which became the center of economic life and a point of concentration of the population.