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Beheading of 27 Bohemian nobles at the Old Town Square in Prague, 1621 (contemporary illustration) John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Czech philosopher and school reformer He was succeeded by his cousin Ferdinand II , Archduke of Austria.
The old Bohemian Diet, one of the last remnants of the independence, was dissolved, although Czech experienced a rebirth as romantic nationalism developed among the Czechs. In 1861, a new elected Bohemian Diet was established.
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.
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 (Czech) state by the earliest Bohemians around the year 600 (Duke Bohemus, Duke Krok and his three daughters), Duchess Libuše and the foundation of ...
Prague Castle, the ancient seat of Bohemian dukes and kings, Roman kings and emperors, and after 1918 the office of the Czechoslovak and Czech presidents On 7 February 1311 the coronation of John of Luxemburg and Elisabeth of Premyslids took place in the Roman basilica of St. Vitus Cathedral , ending with a feast.
Beroun, named by Czech immigrants from Beroun, Czech Republic. Bohemian Flats, a former residential area of Minneapolis that was settled by Czechoslovakian and other European immigrants. Litomysl, named after Litomyšl, Czech Republic. New Prague, named by Czech immigrants after Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
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.
Czech Americans (Czech: Čechoameričané), known in the 19th and early 20th century as Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia.