Bohemians

Biography

The Bohemians (Latin: Behemanni, Beehaimi, Beheimi, Behemi, Boemani, Behemitae, Behemenses) or Bohemian Slavs (Latin: Sclavi qui dicitur Behaimi, Bohemos Slavos, Boemanos Sclavos), as a term designates an early Slavic group of peoples living in Bohemia (modern Czech Republic), meaning the early Czechs. Their land became recognised as the Duchy of Bohemia around 870 (later becoming Kingdom of Bohemia). Their main adversary and partner was Francia, and around the early 9th century emerged a layer of castles with their own hereditary aristocracy, but while Mojmir I seized control over Moravians and founded a state Great Moravia (830s), the Czechs did only since Bořivoj I, the first historically documented Duke of Bohemia from about 870 and progenitor of the Přemyslid dynasty. The related hypothesis about the Bohemian/Czech tribes was formed in the 19th century, based on the 12th-century chronicle Chronica Boemorum (specifically from its late 11th century Prague Charter) by Cosmas of Prague, that mentions “pseudo-tribes", but by the 21st century, that hypothesis became "completely abandoned".

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