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The Bohemians (Latin: Behemanni) or Bohemian Slavs (Bohemos Slavos, Boemanos Sclavos) or Czechs (in Slavic languages), were an early Slavic tribe in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). Their land became recognized as the Duchy of Bohemia around 870 (later becoming Kingdom of Bohemia , nowadays Czech Republic ).
In the 1850s, Bohemian culture started to become established in the United States via immigration. [6] In New York City in 1857, a group of 15 to 20 young, cultured journalists flourished as self-described bohemians until the American Civil War began in 1861. [7] This group gathered at a German bar on Broadway called Pfaff's beer cellar. [8]
Many Suebic tribes from the Bohemian region took part in such movements westward, settling as far away as Spain and Portugal. With them were also tribes who had pushed from the east, such as the Vandals and Alans. Other groups pushed southward toward Pannonia.
Map 7: West Slav tribes in 9th and 10th centuries Map 8: Slavic Bohemian tribes shown in various colors and Moravians in red, on a map of modern Czech Republic. Veneti / Wends Lechitic ancestors of West Slavs; some were also the ancestors of part of South Slavs. Czech–Moravian-Slovak group
The Czech ethnonym (archaic Čechové) was the name of a Slavic tribe in central Bohemia that subdued the surrounding tribes in the late 9th century and created the Czech/Bohemian state. The origin of the name of the tribe itself is unknown. According to legend, it comes from their leader Čech, who brought them to Bohemia.
The Hallstatt culture was the last culture of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The key archeological site of the Hallstatt culture in the Czech Lands is the Býčí skála Cave, where a rare bronze statue of a bull was found. Many of these archeological sites were occupied by multiple cultures throughout the ancient times.
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The list of early Germanic peoples is a catalog of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilizations from antiquity. This information is derived from ...
Their memory also survives in the modern regional names of Bohemia (Boiohaemum), a mixed-language form from boio-and Proto-Germanic *haimaz, 'home': 'home of the Boii', and Bayern, Bavaria, which is derived from the Germanic Baiovarii tribe (Germanic *baja-warjaz: the first component is most plausibly explained as a Germanic version of Boii ...