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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. |
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Bohemia (Ger. Boehmen) is a region of central Europe bounded by {fill in your favorite boundaries}. Roman authors provide the first clear reference to this area, when it was the home of the Boii, a Celtic people. As part of the territory often crossed during the major Germanic and Slavic migrations, the area has been alternately inhabited by many different peoples. By the late 9th c., the inhabitants were mostly Slavic, while the borderlands between Bohemia and Francia proper were somewhat fluid in regards to their inhabitants. In 845 the people known to the Franks as Bohemians (these people were of Slavic origin, and had nothing to do with the Boii) came to Regensburg? to pledge allegiance to the East Frankish king and to receive baptism. One of the more powerful Slavic leaders in Bohemia, Zwentibold? (also known as Swatopluk), became the godfather to the son of emperor [Arnulf of Carinthia]?, the Carolingian ruler in the East. Arnulf's son was named after Zwentibold. Arnulf of Carinthia renewed the tributary agreement that allowed Zwentibold's Slavs free reign over the territories up to the Oder river. After the carolingian kingdom fell into decline, Bohemia was for a time 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. |
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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. |
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After World War I, Bohemia, which had been part of the [Austro-Hungarian Empire]?, was assigned to the newly-formed country of Czechoslovakia. |
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