Le Royaume de Boheme. Divisé en 17. Cercles ou Prefectures avec Partie de Misnie de Silesie et de Moravie & c. Tiré des meilleurs Autheurs

Title

Le Royaume de Boheme. Divisé en 17. Cercles ou Prefectures avec Partie de Misnie de Silesie et de Moravie & c. Tiré des meilleurs Autheurs

Description

Map shows all of Bohemia in the Czech Republic with the cities of Prague, Pilsen, Budweis, Tabor, etc.

c. 1742

Artist

Nolin (1657-1725)

Jean-Baptiste Nolin (ca. 1657-1708) set up the family publishing business in Paris. Many of his maps were based on the work of Vincenzo Coronelli and Sieur de Tillemon. His son (1686-1762), continued the business for many years and prepared an Atlas General which was published posthumously in 1783.

Historical Description

Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic. In a broader meaning, Bohemia sometimes refers to the entire Czech territory, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, especially in a historical context, such as the Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by Bohemian kings. Bohemia was a duchy of Great Moravia, later an independent principality, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, and subsequently a part of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Austrian Empire. After World War I and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state, Bohemia became a part of Czechoslovakia. Between 1938 and 1945, border regions with sizeable German-speaking minorities of all three Czech lands were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland.