Bohemia (/ b oʊ ˈ h iː m i ə / boh-HEE-mee-ə; Czech: Čechy; German: Böhmen (help · info); Upper Sorbian: Čěska; Silesian: Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which …

The Catholic League (Latin: Liga Catholica, German: Katholische Liga) was a coalition of Catholic states of the Holy Roman Empire formed 10 July 1609. While initially formed as a confederation to act politically to negotiate issues vis-à-vis the Protestant Union (formed 1608), modelled on the more intransigent ultra-Catholic French Catholic League (1576), it was subsequently concluded …

Wenceslaus IV (also Wenceslas; Czech: Václav; German: Wenzel, nicknamed "the Idle"; 26 February 1361 – 16 August 1419), also known as Wenceslaus of Luxembourg, was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he was deposed in 1400. As he belonged to the House of Luxembourg, he was also Duke of Luxembourg from 1383 to …

The German Instrument of Surrender (German: Bedingungslose Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, lit. 'Unconditional Capitulation of the Wehrmacht'; Russian: Акт о капитуляции Германии, romanized: Akt o kapitulyatsii Germanii, lit. 'Act of capitulation of Germany'; French: Actes de capitulation du Troisième Reich, lit. 'Acts of capitulation of the Third Reich') was a legal ...

The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.. Following the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938 and after he had obtained the Munich …

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially annexed territory of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German occupation of the Czech lands.The protectorate's population was mostly ethnic Czech.. After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Germany had annexed the German-majority Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. …

"The German question" was a debate in the 19th century, especially during the Revolutions of 1848, over the best way to achieve a unification of all or most lands inhabited by Germans. From 1815 to 1866, about 37 independent German-speaking states existed within the German Confederation.The Großdeutsche Lösung ("Greater German solution") favored unifying all …

German Bohemians (German: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer, i.e. German Bohemians and German Moravians), later known as Sudeten Germans, were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of Czechoslovakia.Before 1945, over three million German Bohemians inhabited about 23% of …

The Silesian Uprisings (German: Aufstände in Oberschlesien, Polenaufstände; Polish: Powstania śląskie) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic at the time. Ethnic Polish and Polish-Silesian insurrectionists, seeking to have the area transferred to the newly founded Polish Republic, …

As a technical term, the "high" in High German is a geographical reference to the group of dialects that forms "High German" (i.e. "Highland" German), out of which developed Standard German, Yiddish and Luxembourgish.It refers to the Central Uplands (Mittelgebirge) and Alpine areas of central and southern Germany; it also includes Luxembourg, Austria, Liechtenstein, …