Bohemian Kingdom or Bohemia are common names for Lands of Bohemian Crown, country founded in centre of Europe in early 7th century and still existing under the newer name Czech Republic. Name 'Bohemian Kingdom' was used before 1918, after this year monarchic rule was changed for republican. Between 1918 and 1993, common name of this country was Czechoslovakia and today official name is Czech Republic, informal names are Bohemia or Czechia.
Although Maria-Theresa regained most of the BohemianKingdom and was crowned queen in Prague in 1743, all of the highly industrialized territory of Silesia except for Tesin, Opava, and Krnov was ceded to Prussia.
In 1804 Francis II transferred his imperial title to the Austrian domains (Austria, BohemianKingdom, Hungary, Galicia, and parts of Italy), and two years later the Holy Roman Empire was formally dissolved.
The Czech revival acquired an institutional foundation with the establishment of the Museum of the BohemianKingdom (1818) as a center for Czech scholarship.
The BohemianKingdom was a major medieval and early modern political, economic, and cultural entity and subsequently was viewed by many Czechs as one of the brightest periods of Czech history.
The BohemianKingdom emerged in the tenth century when the Premyslid chiefs--members of the Cechove, a tribe from which the Czechs derive their name--unified neighboring Czech tribes and established a form of centralized rule.
The BohemianKingdom ceased to be a fief of the emperor.
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