Regnum Bohemia eique annexae Provinciae ut Ducatus Silesia Marchionatus Moravia et Lusatia

Title

Regnum Bohemia eique annexae Provinciae ut Ducatus Silesia Marchionatus Moravia et Lusatia

Description

Map shows Bohemia, Silesia, Maehren, Lausitz and the pricipality Teschen. Decorative and detailed map with 4 coats-of-arms on the titel cartouche. It shows the cities Olmütz, Hradisch, Breslau, Żagań (dt. Sagan), Swidnica (dt. Schweidnitz) etc. From the atlas ;Atlas Manualis;, Christoph Weigel, Nuremberg.

ca. 1720

Artist

Kauffer (1655-1730)

Augsburg maps and engravers. Although Michael Kauffer Jr. was known mainly as a type and map engraver, he also seems to have worked as a silver engraver.

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.