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Library. Czech glass, also called Bohemian glass, has been
produced since the Middle Ages. Bohemia was a kingdom in the
Holy Roman Empire, and from 1867 to 1918, a province of the
Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire. With the dissolution of
Austro-Hungary in 1918, Bohemia was incorporated into the
independent What is your first association with the term
“bohemian”? Does it evoke a fine beer-brewing tradition, or
connote unpronounceable town names? Germans have a saying:
“lauter böhmische Dörfer” (nothing but Bohemian villages),
referring to something completely incomprehensible, because of
the odd Do you know the difference between the Czech Republic