Bohemia

Bohemia is a region of the Czech Republic taking up two thirds of the Czech lands, with Prague in the middle of the area. In history, it was known as the Kingdom of Bohemia. It has an area of 52,065 km squared (20,102 sq mi) and has approximately 6 million of the 10.3 million population in the Czech Republic. In about the 4th century, a concerned queen named, Fritigil, was thought to have lived in or near Pannonia, which is southern Bohemia. All migrating people that didn't stop in Bohemia kept migrating south to Pannonia. That included the queen, who didn't believe there were enough resources in Bohemia. During this period, many people followed the queen. And those who were left in Bohemia, slowly followed later down south. But after about two centuries, in the 6th century, Slavic tribes arrived and repopulated the area. After WWI, Bohemia became the core, or center, of Czechoslovakia. From 1918-1939 and 1945-1992, it was only a small part of Czechoslovakia, but now it takes up most of the new Czech Republic. It has only been part of Czech since 1993. Years later, after WWII ended, the countries were separated and Bohemia was no longer in the very middle or a 'control center'. Now Bohemia is a big land mass in the Czech Republic that has beautiful buildings (architecture) and forests of trees. Being a big part of the Czech Republic, it's visited by many tourists each year. The buildings that stand in Bohemia today are mostly Czech Baroque architecture from the 17th and 18th century.