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Prague, Bohemia BAs

by Meg_Simpson

8/21/2011, 3:27 AM

Marian (a boy)
Věra
Dominik
Veronika
Marie
Daniel (2x)
Ellen
Karolína
Anežka
Julie
Jan
Alžběta
Eliška (3x)
Ondřej
Tomáš
Dagmar
Martin
Kryštof
Kateřina
Miloš
Michal
Marcel
Lukáš
Zdenka
Lucas
Jana
Tobiáš
Barbora
Olga
Pavel
Šimon
Jakub
Matěj

#BAs

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- Hufflepuffer (Ora) +5

8/21/2011, 8:33 AM

Sorry, I'm most fascinated by the use of "Bohemia" over Czech Republic. Where are you from that it's referred to as Bohemia?

- Meg_Simpson +2

8/21/2011, 9:09 AM

I am one of the eastern Bohemian town :-D
Ask Mr. Google.

This message was edited 8/21/2011, 9:09 AM

- Hufflepuffer (Ora) +1

8/21/2011, 10:11 AM

Yeah, I had no idea Bohemia was still referred to as Bohemia. As I told Sofia, most of my knowledge of that region consists of memorizing the name of the country and its capital for my geography tests in high school. Hearing it called Bohemia is, to me, like hearing Turkey and the surrounding region called the Ottoman Empire or Iran called Persia. But it's really like Bavaria in Germany or (as Sofia said) Holland in the Netherlands? Well, I learned something new today!

The wikipedia page had a really pretty picture of a Bohemian town called Karlovy Vary. It looks gorgeous.

This message was edited 8/21/2011, 10:14 AM

- Sofia

8/21/2011, 12:35 PM

Karlovy Vary is well known around the world for it's international film festival. http://www.kviff.com/en/news/

And, yes, it's gorgeous.

Now, we've gone totally of topic:-)

- Sofia +1

8/21/2011, 8:41 AM

She's from Bohemia:-D

It's the same as calling The Netherlands Holland, since Bohemia is the biggest part of the Czech Rep. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia

And just to note, here the study of Czech language and culture at Uni is called bohemistika.

- Hufflepuffer (Ora)

8/21/2011, 10:07 AM

Ah, see I had no idea about any of that. In my part of the US, we don't learn much about that region, aside from basic geography. I know it was once Bohemia, but that the country is Czech Republic from all the geo tests where we had to name all the countries in Europe and their capitals lol.

- annie123

8/21/2011, 6:06 AM

I like Marian, Dominik, Veronika, Daniel and Jakub.

- Wordsmith

8/21/2011, 4:49 AM

I love Dagmar, Marcel, Pavel, and Olga.

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