The Convent of Saint George ( cs, Klášter svatého Jiří) was a convent of

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located in

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in Bohemia (now the

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) between 973 and 1782. Founded in 973, the convent was next to the seat of ecclesiastical and state power in Bohemia and occasionally the entire

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, and played an important historical role. Although no longer active, the convent's building and the attached Basilica dedicated to Saint George still exist. The building of the convent housed the

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's collection of 19th-century Bohemian art for a long time. Currently, it is empty and waits for a renovation. The Abbess of this convent had the unusual privilege of crowning the Queen consort of Bohemia, inherited in 1782 by the Princess-Abbess of the

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