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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.
The Kingdom of Bohemia became little more than a province of the Habsburg realm. [citation needed] After the Thirty Years' War (1618 and 1648), from the original 2.6 million inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia, there remained approximately 950,000 inhabitants in Bohemia and only 600,000 inhabitants in Moravia. [citation needed]
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 reigns of Maria Theresa (1740–1780) and her son Joseph II (1780–1790), Holy Roman Emperor and coregent from 1765, were characterized by enlightened rule.Influenced by the ideas of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers, Maria-Theresa and Joseph worked toward rational and efficient administration of the Bohemian Kingdom.
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.
Bořivoj was the first historically documented Duke of Bohemia from about 870 and progenitor of the Přemyslid dynasty. [4]Cosmas of Prague's (1045–1125) Chronicle of Bohemians (1119), describes the legendary foundation of the Bohemian state by the earliest Bohemians around the year 600 (Duke Bohemus, Duke Krok and his three daughters), Duchess Libuše and the foundation of Přemyslid ...
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.