Czechoslovakia - published by the Czechoslovak Government Information Service in New York City (1939)
‘A bit surreal how the (at the time) ongoing by Nazi Germany is just noted as the latest historical bulletpoint. You’d think this would include some kind of appeal to contribute to the Czechoslovak government and military in exile or something like that.’
Moravians in Czechia and Czech Wine Regions
‘Czech Republic (Česká republika = Česko) is basically Bohemia (actual Czechia/Čechy/Böhmen/Czechy) + Moravia (Morava/Mähren/Morawy) + a little part of Silesia. And there were two different narods here: Bohemians and Moravians.
It’s Czech Republic, non Czech-Moravian, becouse Bohemia has just dominated Moravia in the medieval (look at Poland and Lithuania some centuries later). After fall of Holy Roman Empire there wasn’t any independent and even dependent state of Moravia, becouse it was a part of Bohemia. Bohemian culture is the strongest in current Czech Republic. Name “Česko” was previously an adjective, not the noun (same with for example “Polska”) and comes from “Čechy” (Bohemia), so it basically means “Bohemian (land)”.‘–Hulvester
1608 map of Bohemia and Moravia - by Abraham Ortelius
‘This is beautiful. I’m a big fan of these old maps’–Ammyshine
Languages of sermons in Roman Catholic parishes of The Duchy of Teschen (Upper Silesia, now part of Poland and Czech Republic) in the 17th century (light blue - Polish, light green - Czech, red - German, striped - Polish and German)
‘This region of eastern Europe where a multitude of languages intermixed and existed side by side really is fascinating. Such a fluid region. Sadly, this is today no longer the case, most linguistic enclaves in eastern Europe have faded away to the winds of history’–fabbzz
1937 map of the Krkonoše (Giant Mountains) in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland [9617 x 6663]
1740 map of Moravia - by Matthaeus Seutter
[9283 x 7997]
