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Bohemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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German Bohemia ... Czech Bohemia ... Rabenstein's Knowledge of Bohemia...
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Czech Republic ; Bohemia and Moravia; Genealogical Research ... Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho Slovak Struggle for Liberty. Reprint of the work by Vladimir Nosek Secretary To The Czecho-Slovak Legation In London in 1918...
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Bohemia is a region of the Czech Republic. ... This map has been adapted by B. C. Biega from a map in the public domain at the University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. 26 February 2000...
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Bohemia has an area of 20,058 square miles. It is bounded on the northwest by Saxony, on the northeast by PrussianSilesia, on the southeast by Moravia and the Grand duchy of Lower Austria, on the south by the Grand duchy of Upper Austria, and on the southwest by Bavaria.
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Bohemia lies in a large basin, enclosed on the north, west and south by a natural border line of mountains, which also allow for ideal conditions for winter and summer recreation. ... Central Bohemia is a region of ancient castles, romantic rocky gullets, large forests and fertile plains, interwoven with large rivers.
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Bohemia was to play a pivotal role in the outbreak of the Thirty Years War. Bohemia had been an area known to be religiously tolerant. The region was a mixture of Calvinists, Lutherans, Catholics and Anabaptists. They all lived in relative harmony. ... He was a hard line Catholic who would not tolerate non-Catholics in Bohemia.
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In fact, the Latin name for the Czech lands, "Boiohaemum" (Bohemia), is derived from the name of the Boii Celtic tribe; and the Czech name for the Moldau River (which flows through the capital city of Prague) is Vltava - which is said to come from the Celtic "Vlt" meaning wild, and "Va" meaning water.
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