Where is Boheme?

Question:I found some distant ancestors from "Prague en Boheme". Is that the same as Prague in the Czech republic?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I found some distant ancestors from "Prague en Boheme". Is that the same as Prague in the Czech republic?

Before there was a Czechoslovakia (as in...before WWI) there was a massive empire called "Austria-Hungary". Bohemia as the part of the empire near Prague. That's why Hungarians from that area are called Bohemians and not Magyars.

Yes, Prague, Czech...

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Boheme is the French spelling for Bohemia, a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Czech Republic.
Bohemia has an area of 52,750 km2 and 6.25 million of the Czech Republic's 10.3 million inhabitants. It is bordered by Germany to the southwest, west, and northwest, Poland to the north-east, the Czech historical region of Moravia to the east, and Austria to the south. Bohemia's borders are marked with mountain ranges such as the Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains, and the Giant Mountains within the Sudeten mountains.
Roman authors provide the first clear reference to this area as Boiohaemum, (Boio-heim) Germanic for "the home of the Boii," a Celtic people. As part of the territory often crossed during the Migration Period by major Germanic and Slavic tribes, the western half was conquered and settled from the 1st century BC by Germanic (probably Suebic) peoples including the Marcomanni. After the migration of the Marcomanni, renamed the Bavarians, to the southwest, they were replaced around the sixth century by the Slavic precursors of today's Czechs.

(There is a much lengthier article on the history of Bohemia on the Wikipedia website)

Bohemia is a former duchy and region of Europe, and is on the eastern boundary of Germany. It makes up the western 2/3s, more or less, of the Czech Republic, and its history as a Germanic-controlled duchy explains why so many Czechs speak German.

Boheme is BOHEMIA, CZECH REPUBLIC which is located
in the middle of the country of Germany & Poland in the northern region,
Switzerland in the western region,
Slovakia and Hungary in the eastern region,
and Italy & Austria in the southern region.

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