Bohemia is the westernmost historical region of the Czech Republic, whose capital city is Prague. 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. Bohemia became a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire.
After gaining independence in 1918 as the nation of Czechoslovakia, the country endured Nazi Occupation (1938-1945) and Communist party control (1948-1989) as a satellite state of the Eastern Bloc, until the Velvet Revolution brought a peaceful transition of power and the Velvet Divorce in 1992 established the Czech Republic, which in 2016 was named Czechia.
