Lands constituting German Bohemia were historically an integral part of the Duchy and Kingdom of Bohemia. Later, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of First World War, areas of Bohemia with an ethnic German majority began to take action to avoid joining a new Czechoslovak state. On 27 October 1918, the Egerland declared independence from Bohemia and a day later the independence of Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed in the Bohemian capital of Prague.[1]