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Bohemia (/ b o ʊ ˈ h iː m i ə / boh-HEE ... Bavaria, 800–850) divide the population of Bohemia into the Merehani, Marharaii, Beheimare (Bohemani), and Fraganeo ...
By 1910, the Czech population was 349,000, and by 1940 it was 1,764,000. The U.S. Bureau of the Census reported that nearly 800,000 Czechs were residing in the U.S. in 1970. Since that figure did not include Czechs who had been living in the U.S. for several generations, it is reasonable to assume that the actual number was higher.
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.
Before 1945, over three million German Bohemians constituted [1] about 23% of the population of the whole country and about 29.5% of the population of Bohemia and Moravia. [2] Ethnic Germans migrated into the Kingdom of Bohemia , an electoral territory of the Holy Roman Empire , from the 11th century, mostly in the border regions of what was ...
Territories constituting modern German Bohemia were historically an integral part of the Duchy and Kingdom of Bohemia (itself part of the Holy Roman Empire from 1102), although with different ethnic development. After the Migration Period, German tribes had largely left the Bohemian areas and the region had become home of a Slavic population.
As of 2024, South Bohemian Region's population is 654,505 and with only 65 people per square kilometer, the region has the lowest population density in the whole country. 64.2% of the region's population lives in towns or cities. One-third of the inhabitants live in the five largest municipalities.
It is estimated that the population of the Czech lands declined by a third. [44] The 18th and 19th century is characterized by the Czech National Revival, focusing to revive Czech culture and national identity. Since the turn of the 20th century, Chicago is the city with the third largest Czech population, after Prague and Vienna. [45] [46]
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [a] was a partially-annexed [3] territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the German occupation of the Czech lands. The protectorate's population was mostly ethnic Czech .