Bohemian 4716 223854351 2008-07-06T04:25:23Z 123.109.205.228 Removed a sentence at the end which was vandalization. {{Refimprove|date=November 2007}} {{Otheruses}} '''Bohemians''' are the people of [[Bohemia]], in the [[Czech Republic]], inhabitants of the former [[monarchy|Kingdom]] of Bohemia, located in the modern day Czech Republic. The name derives from the [[Latin]] term for the [[Celt]]ic tribe inhabiting that area, the [[Boii]], who were called ''Boiohaemum'' in the early Middle Ages. The word "Bohemians" was never used by the local Czech ([[Slavic peoples|Slavic]]) population. In [[Czech language|Czech]], the region since the early Middle Ages has been called only "Čechy" (Bohemia) or "Království české" (Kingdom of Bohemia), and its mainly Czech-speaking inhabitants were called "Češi". In other European vernaculars and in Latin (as ''Bohemi''), the word "Bohemian" or a derivate was used to designate all inhabitants of Bohemia. If the Czech ethnic origin was to be stressed, combinations like "Bohemian of Bohemian language" (''Čech českého jazyka''), "a real Bohemian" (''pravý Čech'') etc. were used. It was not until the 19th century that other European languages began to use the word "Czechs" (in English — ''Tschechen'' in German, ''tchèques'' in French) in a deliberate (and successful) attempt to distinguish between inhabitants of the western part (Bohemia) of the Czech Republic and the eastern ([[Moravia]]) + northeastern part ([[Czech Silesia|Silesia]]).