What happened to Bohemia?
Bohemia is Latin for "the land of Bois" (Bojove in original
Czech), Bojove was a Celtic tribe in the heart of central Europe,
today´s Czech Republic, which than merged with Slavic populace
coming from East. The name Bohemia was tha used for the first Czech
regular state (from 9/10 century AD) with seat at the Vysehrad
Castle in Prague, the biggest and one of the oldest castle system
in the world. The reigning dynasty of first bohemian state was the
Przemyslid House (Přemyslovci),after it´s peak when half przemyslid
half Luxembourg Czech king Charles IV was elected Holy Roman
Emperor in 14th cent. (better to say this emperor from Luxembourg
dynasty adopted Czech "citizenship" he inherited from his mother,
the last member of the ancient Přemyslid House). After decline of
power of the state at the Time of Charles´s sons due to the Hussite
Wars (rel. reform 100 yrs before Luther, hussite warlord Jan Zizka
defended several German crusades with peasants only, half and at
the end completely blind, never lost a battle in his life, tough
guy,) )the bohemian throne was - a notable moment in history -
filled by Jiri from Podebrady, proabably only King in
not-modern-History who was elected (by the Parliamentary House of
Noblemen only, not by general public, we are in 15th century here,
but still in a very democartic fashion).After his Death (he was one
of the first having a vision of United States of Europe), Czech
gentry thought it would be a good idea to fetch themselves a King
from some mighty European House, and when the English (connected
via marriages) refuted to send one of their princes, bohemian
gentry tried the nearby Austria-settled House of Habsbourg, which
Rule began in a democratic Fashion, as a Union of separate states
unified with the Person of the King/Emperor,but shortly the
austrians "politically anected" bohemian lands and made them only
inferior part of Austrian Empire. That was the End of Bohemia,
because after the decline of Asutrian Empire in 1918,the term
Bohemia was merely obsolete, so as Czech sentiments for monarchical
form of government, and therefore short, but glorious story of
pre-war Czechoslovakia begins.