Lands of the Bohemian Crown

Also known as Czech Crown Lands, Lands of the Crown of Saint Wenceslaus, Bohemian Crown

monarchy in Central Europe, predecessor of modern Czech Republic

Key facts

1600: 2,950,000
Status: States of the Holy Roman Empire (1348–1806), Crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy (1526–1804), of the Austrian Empire (1804–1867), and of the Cisleithanian part of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)
Capital: Prague
Common languages: Czech , German , Latin
Religion: Official religions: Latin Catholicism Hussitism , later Bohemian Reformed ( Utraquism , Brethren ) Others: Lutheranism (majority during Reformation ) Judaism ( Jews ) Calvinism Hutterian Anabaptism Waldensianism Neo-Adamitism
Government: Monarchy
1346 1378: Charles I (first)
1916 1918: Charles III (last)
Bohemian crown established: 7 April 1348
Inauguration of the luxembourg dynasty: 7 April 1348
Became main part of bohemian crown lands: 5 April 1355

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The Lands of the Bohemian Crown were the states in Central Europe during the medieval and early modern periods with feudal obligations to the Bohemian kings. The crown lands primarily consisted of the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire according to the Golden Bull of 1356, the Margraviate of Moravia, the duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia and the Margraviate of Lower Lusatia, as well as other territories throughout its history. This agglomeration of states nominally under the rule of the Bohemian kings was referred to simply as Bohemia.