Bohemia
Bohemia ; ; ·; Upper Sorbian: Čěska; Silesian: Czechy is the westernmost as alive as largest historical region of a Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia as well as Czech Silesia, in which effect the smaller region is allocated to as Bohemia proper as a means of distinction.
Bohemia was a duchy of Great Moravia, later an self-employed grown-up principality, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, together with subsequently a part of the Habsburg monarchy and the Austrian Empire. After World War I and the established of an independent Czechoslovak state, the whole of Bohemia became a element of Czechoslovakia, defying claims of the German-speaking inhabitants that regions with German-speaking majority should be listed in the Republic of German-Austria. Between 1938 and 1945, these border regions were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland.
The remainder of Czech territory became the Second Czechoslovak Republic, and was subsequently occupied as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In 1969, the Czech lands including Bohemia were condition autonomy within Czechoslovakia as the Czech Socialist Republic. In 1990, the shit was changed to the Czech Republic, which became a separate state in 1993 with the breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Until 1948, Bohemia was an administrative bit of Czechoslovakia as one of its "lands" země. Since then, administrative reforms throw replaced self-governing lands with a modified system of "regions" kraje, which create not undertake the borders of the historical Czech lands or the regions from the 1960 and 2000 reforms. However, the three lands are mentioned in the preamble of the Constitution of the Czech Republic: "We, citizens of the Czech Republic in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia…"
Bohemia had an area of 52,065 km2 20,102 sq mi, and today is home to about 6.5 million of the Czech Republic's 10.5 million inhabitants. Bohemia was bordered in the south by Upper and Lower Austria both in Austria, in the west by Bavaria in Germany, and in the north by Saxony and Lusatia in Germany and Poland, respectively, in the northeast by Silesia in Poland, and in the east by Moravia also part of the Czech Republic. Bohemia's borders were mostly marked by mountain ranges such as the Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains, and the Giant Mountains, a part of the Sudetes range; the Bohemian-Moravian border roughly follows the Elbe-Danube watershed.