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Bohemia (/ b oʊ ˈ h iː m i ə / boh-HEE-mee-ə; [2] Czech: Čechy ⓘ; [3] German: Böhmen [ˈbøːmən] ⓘ; Upper Sorbian: Čěska; Silesian: Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.
The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire. The Bohemian king was a prince-elector of the empire. The kings of Bohemia, besides the region of Bohemia itself, also ruled other lands belonging to the Bohemian Crown, which at various times included Moravia, Silesia, Lusatia, and parts of Saxony, Brandenburg, and Bavaria.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, In Summer (or Lise the Bohemian), 1868, oil on canvas, Berlin, Germany: Alte Nationalgalerie. Bohemianism is a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations.
The Duchy of Bohemia was established in 870 and raised to the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198.Several Bohemian monarchs ruled as non-hereditary kings beforehand, first gaining the title in 1085.
The Lands of the Bohemian Crown were the states in Central Europe during the medieval and early modern periods with feudal obligations to the Bohemian kings.The crown lands primarily consisted of the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire according to the Golden Bull of 1356, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate ...
The Duchy of Bohemia, also later referred to in English as the Czech Duchy, [1] [2] (Old Czech: Češské kniežěstvie) was a monarchy and a principality of the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe during the Early and High Middle Ages.
King of Bohemia r. 1916–1918 also King of Hungary and Croatia and Emperor of Austria in pretence r. 1918–1922: Bohemia became part of the Republic of Czechoslovakia: Otto von Habsburg 1912–2011 [1] King of Bohemia in pretence r. 1922–2011: Regina of Saxe-Meiningen 1925–2010: Karl von Habsburg "Charles IV" b. 1961 King of Bohemia in ...
Historical Bohemian flag in the work of Jacob Koebel: Wapen. Des heyligen Römischen Reichs Teutscher nation (1545) The flag of Bohemia is a historic flag, which now forms part of the design in the modern flag of the Czech Republic. The flag, a horizontal bicolour, was based on the colours of the former monarchs of Bohemia.