Czech lands

The historic lands of present-day Czech Republic are:

• Bohemia
• Moravia
• Silesia (1742-1918 Austrian Silesia, Moravia Silesia after 1918, sometimes called ).

In the historical sense one speaks also of the countries of the Bohemian Crown (also Wenceslas crown).

Moravia was after the disintegration of the Great Moravian Empire, a dispute between Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. It was not until 1021 it could finally be united with Bohemia and was established in 1182 as Mark county. It has been repeatedly used as a fief for younger princes of the Bohemian royal family. Between 1349 and 1411 even a Moravian branch line of the Luxembourg trained.

Silesia was originally dominated by the Polish Piast dynasty, which began to split up over the course of the 12th and 13th centuries into smaller and smaller principalities. Between 1327 and 1343 these principalities came under Bohemian suzerainty. It was only in 1372 renounced the King of Poland on his claims to Silesia. Over the next two centuries, the Silesian Piast rulers died out one by one, the last, however, only 1675. 1742 was the largest part of Silesia in the War of Austrian Succession lost to Prussia.

In the 14th century, the two countries Lusatia came together with Silesia to Bohemia, but was pledged during the Thirty Years' War in Saxony.