The Lands of the Weceslav Crown
Jürgen Tampke
The country around the Bohemian Basin and its adjacent mountain ranges to south, west north, which today constitutes Czech Republic, is part of diverse ethnic, cultural religious landscape so characteristic eastern-central, eastern south-eastern Europe. Archaeological evidence has shown that Celtic tribes had lived here in first two centuries before Common Era — fact name Bohemia stems from be followed by Germanic who arrived third century ce then moved eastward as general European migration middle millennium ce. Their place was taken western Slavonic sixth seventh centuries. princes are listed among those obliged pay tribute Charlemagne, Carolingian founder Frankish Empire, for time 805/806, his successor Ludwig German, laid claim Moravia 846. ninth also saw region’s conversions Christendom; fact, one Christian dukes, Wenceslas, Přemislyden dynasty rule until beginning fourteenth century, declared a martyr saint after younger brother Boleslaw assassinated him 935. latter’s lasted 972 but murdered became hero patron realm.
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