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The Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech: České království), [a] sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, [8] [9] [a] was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the predecessor state of the modern Czech Republic. The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire.
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 highest officials of the kingdom, to be chosen from among the local nobility, would be strictly subordinate to the king. [1] Thus, little remained of an autonomous and distinct Bohemian Kingdom. [1] Habsburg rule was further buttressed by the large-scale immigration into Bohemia of Catholic Germans from south German territories. [1]
In the Bohemian Kingdom, a national committee was formed that included Germans and Czechs. But Bohemian Germans favored creating a Greater Germany out of various German-speaking territories. The Bohemian Germans soon withdrew from the committee, signaling the Czech-German conflict that would characterize subsequent history.
Upon the death of King Matthias in 1490, Vladislas ruled the Bohemian crown lands and the Kingdom of Hungary in personal union. When Vladislas' only son Louis was killed at the Battle of Mohács in 1526 ending the Jagiellon dynasty rule in Bohemia, a convention of Bohemian nobles elected his brother-in-law, the Habsburg archduke Ferdinand I of ...
Czech historical lands and current administrative regions ()The Czech lands or the Bohemian lands [1] [2] [3] (Czech: České země, pronounced [ˈtʃɛskɛː ˈzɛmɲɛ]) is a historical-geographical term which, in a historical and cultural context, denotes the three historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia out of which Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic, were formed.
Not a separate Land of the Bohemian Crown. There were 5 Lands. Eger was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Virtually every historical map includes it as its part. 00:23, 13 May 2019: 2,769 × 2,524 (1,023 KB) David Beneš: Restored. The fact is stated in every WP article about Egerland/Chebsko, cf. the sources there. 15:53, 11 May 2019: 2,769 × ...
Kingdom of Bohemia (10 C, 14 P) M. Margraviate of Moravia (2 C, 11 P) S. Duchies of Silesia (1 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Lands of the Bohemian Crown"