Bohemia

Bohemia (German, Boehmen; Czech, Cechy;is a region of central Europe bounded by {fill in your favorite boundaries}. Roman authors knew it first as the home of the Boii, a Celtic or perhaps even Germanic people. After centuries of incursions by Huns, Avars?, Slavs? , the primary inhabitants were Slavs with the German people being pushed to the western part of Bohemia,the Sudeten mountains , which are situated directly adjacent to the Bavaria forest "Bayrischer Wald". In 895 the Bohemian/Moravian?/Silesian? dukes came to imperial Regensburg? to pledge allegiance to the empire and to receive baptism.(Swatopluk? became the godfather to the son of emperor [Arnulf of Carinthia]? (and Bavaria), named for Swatopluk or Zwentibold? (German). Arnulf of Carinthia had given the Moravian/Bohemian? dukes Land/Lien? (land on loan) up to the Oderriver.Emperor Charlemagne had already sectioned Silesia into four pagus (Gaue) or districts . Bohemia was in the early middle ages a part of the short-lived kingdom of Greater Moravia, then the base of the Slavic Przemyslid Dukes, who ruled in Bohemia and partially in Poland until 1306, when their line became extinct.

Conversion and alignment with Rome

Vaclav (Saint Wenceslas) builds church of St. Vitus

935 - Vaclav murdered by Boleslav

Bohemia under considerable influence from Duchy of Bavaria

Boleslav rules 935-967

964, Piast Duke Mieszko I marries a daughter of Boleslav I

Relations with the Frankish and the Ottonian empires

Elevation from Duchy to Kingdom

Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire

Prague was one of the great cities of the Empire. Bohemia was an independent kingdom until 1526.

Modern Bohemia

The Czechoslavak Republic {was that it's name?} was formed out of part of the former [Austro-Hungarian Empire]? in the aftermath of World War I.

World War II and irredentism.

Communist era

Czech Republic

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