German Bohemia

The Province of German Bohemia (German:  Provinz Deutschböhmen ; Czech: Německé Čechy) was a province in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, established for a short period of time after the First World War, as part of the Republic of German Austria.

It included parts of northern and western Bohemia, at that time primarily populated by ethnic Germans. Important population centers were Reichenberg (now Liberec), Aussig (Ústí nad Labem), Teplitz-Schönau (Teplice), Dux (Duchcov), Eger (Cheb), Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně), Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Gablonz an der Neiße (Jablonec nad Nisou), Leitmeritz (Litoměřice), Brüx (Most) and Saaz (Žatec). The land that comprised the province would later form an integral part of the territory later known as the "Sudetenland".

Archaeologists have found evidence of Celtic and Boii migrations through the Bohemia in the 3rd century BC. The Germanic settlement started in the 1st century AD. Slavic people from the Black Sea-Carpathian region settled here in the 7th century. Germans came as merchants in the 10th century. In the High Middle Ages, they started settling in the less populated border regions. Lands constituting German Bohemia were historically an integral part of the Duchy and Kingdom of Bohemia. Later, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of First World War, areas of Bohemia with an ethnic German majority began to take action to avoid joining a new Czechoslovak state. On 27 October 1918, the Egerland declared independence from Bohemia and a day later the independence of Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed in the Bohemian capital of Prague.

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